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1. General Knowledge Question and Answers
1.Alpha-keratinisaproteinpresentinwhichthing?
2.WherewasthefirstsessionoftheConstituentAssemblyheld?
3. Whichofthefollowingis usedas ‘amoderatorinnuclearreactor?
4.Whichplanetlooksreddishinthenightsky?
5. Whatwas thesourceof the bluegem stone,lapislazuli,forthepeopleof Harappan culture?
6.SachinTendulkarscoredhis100thinternationalcenturyagainstwhich’country?
7. In baseball,thetwoopposingteamsconsistof howmanyplayers?
8.Theimproperfunctionofwhichresultsincondition‘Myxedema’inhumanbeings?
9.In1610,GalileoGalileidiscoveredfourmoonsofwhichplanet?
10. In theVedicsociety,which was theterm usedto denotea groupof families?
11.WhowastheChairman’oftheUnionConstitutionCommitteeoftheConstituentAssembly?
12. Whichelementthatdoesnotoccurinnaturebutcanbeproducedartificially?
13. Whenhad Indiaa planholiday?
14. Howare Latitudeand Longitude?
15.WhichPhilosophyholdsthattheworldiscreatedandmaintainedbyUniversalLaw?
16. Which book is authored byV.S.Naipaul ?
17. Whichcanbeusedforbiologicalcontrolofmosquitoes?
18.WhichproclamationofNationalEmergencyautomaticallysuspends?
19. The latitudeof a placeis the sameas whichplace?
20.WhatwasthescriptusedintheearliestTamilinscriptions?
Answer :
1. Wool2. New Delhi 3. Graphite 4. Mars 5.Afghanistan 6. Bangladesh 7. 9 players each 8. Thyroid gland 9. Jupiter
10.Grama11.JawaharlalNehru12.Plutonium13.Afterthedroughtof196614.Perpendiculartoeachother15.Jain
Philosophy 16.AHouse for Mr. Biswas 17. Gambusia 18. Right to freedom 19. Celestial pole 20. Brahmi

2. 20. Telugu
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1.InwhichtechnologydoCryogenicenginesfindapplications?
2. ShovnaNarayanisareputedpersonalityinwhichfield?
3. DuringwhichPlandidpricesshowadecline?
4.Whichinstrumentusedforfindingoutwind-direction?
5. WhichportshandledthenorthIndiantradeduringtheGuptaperiod?
6. Whichvitaminis consideredto be a hormone?
7. OnthebasisoffinancialcrisishowmanytimeshasemergencybeendeclaredbythePresidentofIndia?
8. Whichis theelementfoundonthesurfaceofthemoon?
9. Whyis ‘BeaufortScale’used?
10.WhichTomarruleriscreditedtohaveestablishedDelhi?
11.‘MyMusic,MyLife’is theautobiographyofwhichperson?
12.WhichwasthefirsttalkiefilmofIndia?
13.ThroughwhichTranslocationoffoodmaterialsinplantstakesplace?
14. WhendoesRelativehumiditydecreases?
15. WhowastheSultanof Delhiwhois reputedtohavebuiltthebiggestnetworkof canalsin India?
16. Whattypeof Partysystem has beenevolvedin India?
17.Amanwithadarkskin,incomparisonwithamanwithawhiteskin,Whatwillexperience?
18. Whichbankis the Bankerof the Banks?
19. Wherearealargenumberofspeciesarefoundwithinasmallunitofarea?
20.KrishnadevaRayawroteafamouswork,namelyAmuktamalyada,inwhichlanguage?
Answer :
1. Rocket technology 2. Classical dance 3. First 4. wind vane 5. Broach 6. D 7. Not even once 8. Titanium 9. To
measure wind velocity 10.Anangpal 11.Pt. Ravi Shankar 12.AlamAra 13. Phloem14.Withincreased temperature
15. Feroze Shan Tughlaq 16. Multi-Party 17. Less heat and less cold 18. RBI 19. Wet evergreen equatorial forests

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1. Folkpainting‘Madhubani’isfamousinwhichstate?
2. Whichisthetreerequiringminimumwaterforitsgrowth?
3. WhichpostdoestheConstitutionof Indiadoesnotmention?
4. WhichcountryisthelargestproducerofBauxite?
5. Which Indianrulerswas a contemporaryofAkbar?
6. How are Oxygen and ozone?
7. FromwheredidIndiaintroducecultivationoftobacco/tapioca/pineapple?
8. Whenwas theReserveBank of Indiatakenoverbythe Government?
9. Whichis foundon thewesterncoastof continentsbetween30°and40°latitudes?
10. WhichschoolofpaintingsdevelopedindependentlyduringtheMughalPeriod?
11.In whichis ‘FootandMouthDisease’found?
12. Who decides the numberof Judges in a HighCourt?
13. Whatdenotesthesmallesttemperature?
14. Inwhichlatitudeslargestquantitiesofbauxiteisfound?
15. WhichwasthefirstEnglishshipthatcametoIndia?
16. Whichtree,onceverypopularin socialforestry,is nowtakentobe environmentalhazard?
17. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this
caused?
18. Inwhichanimalisrespirationdonebyskin?
19.TheRuhr-Westphaliaregionisafamousindustrialregionofwhichcountry?
20. Whichwas thefirstnewspaperto be publishedin India?
Answer :
1. Bihar2. Babul 3.The DeputyPrime Minister 4.Australia 5. Rani Durgawati6.Allotropes7. SouthAmerica 8. 1948
9. Mediterranean Climate Region 10. The Bijapur School 11. Cattle 12. President 13. 1° on the Kelvin scale 14.
Tropical latitudes 15. Red Dragon 16. Eucalyptus 17. Bacterium 18. Frog 19. Germany 20. Bengal Gazette

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1.Withwhichdoes thepowerto extendor restrictthejurisdictionof theHighCourtrest?
2.‘Gobargas’containsmainlywhichgas?
3.WhichisthebiggestPublicSectorundertakinginthecountry?
4.Whichrocksistransformedintomarble?
5.Which‘EnglishmenwasfellowofGandhijiinSouthAfrica?
6.Bywhichnumberthequalityofgasoline’sampleisdetermined?
7. Dueto biteof maddogthediseasehydrophobiais causedbywhichvirus?
8.WhoappointstheChiefElectionCommissionerofIndia?
9.Whatistheprincipalreasonfortheformationofmetamorphicrocks?
10.Whosaid“Ithereforewantfreedomimmediately,thisverynight,beforedawnifitcanbehad”?
11.Atemperatureat whichboththeFahrenheitandthecentigradescaleshavethesamevalue?
12.Withwhichis the‘Tenniscourtoath’associated?
13. Whichis thetax that takes awaya higherproportionof one’sincomeas theincomerises?
14. Where is the Sargasso sea located?
15. Who com meritedthat Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing bank?
16.Medicineforepilepsyisobtainfromwhichlichen?
17.UptohowmuchagecantheMembersoftheUnionPublicServiceCommissionfunction?
18.Whichtypeofglassisusedformakingglassreinforcedplastic?
19. Whichis thegreatestknownoceandepth(whichliesinthePacificOcean)?
20.AtwhichoneplacedidMahatmaGandhifirststarthisSatyagrahainIndia?
Answer :
1. With the Parliament 2. Methane3. Railways 4. Limestone 5. Polak 6. By its octane number 7. Rabies virus 8.
President 9. Extreme heat and pressure 10. Mahatma Gandhi 11. -40° 12. French Revolution 13. Progressive tax 14.
NorthAtlantic Ocean 15. Mahatma Gandhi 16. Parmelia 17. 65 years 18. Quartz glass 19. 11,033 m20. Champaran

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1.Withwhichcountryis“Orange’Revolution”associated?
2.WithwhichfieldwasPanditBhimsenJoshiassociated?
3. Whatpercentageofwaterislostduringtranspiration?
4. Whichisthemostpopulouscityintheworld?
5. BywhichrulerwasthepracticeofmilitarygovernorshipfirstintroducedinIndia?
6. WhichcountryhasthebriefestConstitutionintheworld?
7. Whentemperatureis graduallydecreased,whatis thespecificheatof substance?
8. WhatisthemeanofInvisibleExport?
9. WhichisthecountrywiththehighestdensityofpopulationinEurope?
10. BhaktTukaramwas a contemporaryof whichMughalemperor?
11.Who was the first person to cross theAlps witharmy?
12. What is the loss of waterin the form of waterdrops called?
13. Whowas madetheHomeMinisterwhenJawaharlal Nehruformedthe Interim Governmentin 1946?
14.WhichforeigncountryisclosesttoAndarnanIslands?
15.WhowascalledZindaPir(livingsaint)inMughalIndia?
16.Whichmetalisnontoxicinnature?
17. Whichis thelatestadditiontothelistofUNESCO’sworldheritagesitesin India?
18. Whichcommitteewasassignedtorecommendreformsintheinsurancesector?
19. WhichStatesharesboundarieswiththemaximumnumberofotherStatesofIndia?
20.Thefirstrailwaylinein Indiawasopenedinwhichyear?
Answer :
1. Ukraine2.Music’s3.99%4.Tokyo5.Greeks6.USA7.Decreased8.ExportServices9.Netherlands10.Jahangir
11.Hannibal12. Guttation13. SardarPatel14. Myanmar 15.Aurangzeb 16. Gold 17. Red Fort18. MalhotraCommit-
tee 19.Assam 20. 1853

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1. Whatis Studyof growthanddevelopmentof embryo?
2.Whatistheminimumpermissibleageforemploymentinanyfactoryormine?
3.Angularseparationbetweentwocoloursofthespectrumdependsuponwhichthing?
4.WhichmountainrangestretchesfromGujaratinwesttoDelhiinthenorth?
5.Inwhichnomadmanstartedsettling?
6.WhereistheheadquarterofInternationalatomicEnergyAgencyislocated?
7.Thebook‘DiplomaticEncounter’hasbeenwrittenbywhichauthor?
8. What is the Studyof pulseand arterial bloodpressurecalled?
9.TheHimalayasareformedofparallelfoldrangesofwhichtheoldestrange?
10. Rigveda is dividedinto 10books. Which books are the oldest?
11.WhoiscompetenttoprescribeconditionsasforacquiringIndiancitizenship?
12.Whichistheelementthathasthehighestfirstionizationpotential?
13. DuringwhichPlandidpricesshowadecline?
14. Whichstatehasthelargestnumberof saltlakesin India?
15.Who was the last of the 24thJainTirthankaras?
16. Who is the authorof the book‘TheRights of Man’?
17. Whatis considered as theeasilydigestablesourceof protein?
18.WhentheVice-Presidentacts as Presidenthe gets theemolumentsof whichpost?
19. Whichport especiallydevelopedforexportingiron oreto Japan?
20.Whichsite,whereAshokanpillarsexist,hasthebullcapital?
Answer :
1. Embryology 2. 14 years 3. Angle of deviation 4. Aravallis 5. Neolithic Age 6. Vienna 7. Arundhati Roy 8.
Sphygmology 9. The Great Himalayan Range 10. Second and seventh 11. Parliament 12. Nitrogen 13. First 14.
Rajasthan 15. Mahavira 16. Thomas Paine 17. Soyabean 18. President 19. Paradeep 20. Rampurva

7. ReserveSystem19.Narmada20.Berar
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1.Totalinternalreflectionoflightispossiblewhenlightentersfromwhichthing?
2.Thebook‘WorshippingFalseGods’sis writtenbywhichperson?
3.WhenwastheRollingplandesigned?
4.WhichisaglobalbiodiversityhotspotinIndia?
5.DuringwhichreignwasKalidasalived?
6. In thehumanbody,cowper’sglandsform a part of whichsystem?
7.TheresolutionforremovingtheVice-Presidentof Indiacanbemovedinwhichsabha?
8.Whichtransitionmetalisinliquidstate?
9.Whichtypeofforestexhibitshighestbio-diversity?
10.WhichRashtrakutarulerestablishedavictorypillarinRameshwaram?
11.WhodirectedthefamousT.V.serial‘TandooriNights’?
12. The UNESCOdeclared 2011as which InternationalYear?
13. In absenceof ribosomein cell which functiondoes not takesplace?
14.WhereareTapovanandVishnugarhHydroelectricProjectslocated?
15.WhowasthelastruleroftheTughlaqdynastyoftheDelhiSultanate?
16.TowhomdoesthePublicAccountsCommitteesubmititsreport?
17. If a barmagnetis cut lengthwiseinto3 parts,what willthetotalnumberof polesbe?
18. WhydoestheIssueDepartmentoftheRBImaintaina againstprintingofnote?
19.Withwhichriveris theOmkareshwarProjectassociated?
20.TherulerwhichwasnotinvitedtojointheconfederacytofightagainstVijaynagarinthebattleofTalikota?
Answer :
1. Water to air 2. Arun Shourie 3. 1978-83 4. Western Ghats 5. Chandragupta II 6. Reproductive system 7. Rajya
Sabha alone 8. Mercury 9. Tropicalrain forest 10. Krishna III 11.Saeed Jaffrey12. InternationalYearof Chemistry 13.
Protein synthesis 14. Uttarakhand 15. Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud 16.The Speaker ofthe Lok Sabha 17. 6 18. Minimum

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1.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2010as which InternationalYear?
2.Whichtissuetakepartinhealingthewounds?
3.WhichisthehighestandfinaljudicialtribunalinrespectoftheConstitutionofIndia?
4.Whatisthestatethemainactivityassociatedwiththefoldmountain?
5.WhowastheAfghanrulerofIndiawhoseadministrativesystemwasemulatedbytheBritish?
6.Temporaryhardnessof wateris dueto thepresenceof whichthing?
7. Regattais associatedwithwhichsports event?
8. Rupeewas devalued bywhat percent inJuly1991?
9. What is the term as the drainagepatterndeveloped on folded sedimentaryrocks?
10. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’?
11.Whichenergydonothavetheproblemofpollution?
12. Whenwas the Madras StaterenamedTamilNadu?
13.Whatisasuitableunitforexpressingelectricfieldstrength?
14. Rotationoftheearthcausesdeflectionofwindbywhichforce?
15.Whoorganiseda MarathaconfederacyagainsttheEnglishleadingto theThirdAngloMarathaWar?
16.WhichwomanhasbecomethehighestindividualscorerinaninningsinTests?
17. Whatis thenameofthepersonthat controlsa footballmatch?
18.Whichairpollutantaffectthenervoussystemofman?
19. Whichis thechiefcharacteristicsofwet anddrytropics?
20.BywhomwasShuddhimovement(conversionofnon-HindustoHinduism)started?
Answer :
1. Rapprochemont of Cultures 2. Epithelium tissue 3. Supreme Court 4. Earthquakes 5. Sher Shah 6.Magnesium
bicarbonate 7. Rowing 8. 20 Percent 9. Trellis10.Aurangzeb’s wife 11. Sun 12. 1969 13. N/C 14. Coriolis force 15.The
Peshwa 16. Kiran Baloch 17.An umpire 18. Lead 19. Constant heating 20. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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1. WhichUnionTerritoryattainedstatehoodin February, 1987?
2.Whichoxyacidofhalogenhasmaximumacidicnature?
3.FromwhenwastheZeroBaseBudgetinginIndiafirstexperimented?
4.Whatis mostimportantreasonfordwindlingforestresourcestoday?
5. “Thebest andbravestof themilitaryleaderof therebels”-aboutwhom was thissaid bySirHughRose?
6.Whois theleadingwickettakerin thehistoryofTestcricket?
7.Thegreatestthreattoorganismsandbiodiversityinwhichprocess?
8.WhichArticleoftheConstitutionofIndiamakesaspecificmentionofVillagePanchayats?
9. How muchof earthsurfaceis coveredbythe forests?
10. Whowasthefirst IndianwomanPresidentofthe IndianNationalCongress?
11.Theunidirectionalpropertyofapn-junctionisusefulforitsuseaswhichthing?
12. Who has been awarded the Prem BhatiaAwardfor the year 2012?
13.Whoisthechairmanof13thFinanceCommission?
14.TheHimalyasareapproximatelyhowmanykilometerbroad?
15.DuringIndia’sFreedomStruggle,whichledtothefirst‘AllIndiaHartal’?
16.Whichanimalshaveadietmainlyconsistingofbamboo?
17.WhichAmendmentoftheConstitutionofIndiadealswiththeissueofstrengtheningofthePanchayatiRaj?
18.Thermaldecompositionofalkanesisknownaswhichname?
19. Howmanyislandsof IndiaarelocatedintheBayof Bengal?
20. In ancient India,at wherewastheearliest capitalof Magadhakingdom?
Answer :
1. Goa 2. HClO4
3.April,1987 4.Overfelling5. RaniofJhansi6. ShaneWarne7. Process of habitat loss 8.Article 40
9. 30 percent 10. Sarojini Naidu 11. Rectifier 12. P.R. Ramesh 13. Vijay Kelkar 14. 150 to 400 15. Protest against
Rowlatt Act 16. Red pandas 17. 73rd 18. Cracking 19. 204 20. Rajgir

10. million sq km20. Plassey
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1.AmaryaSen,the NRINobel laureategot the honourfor whichwork?
2. Wheredid Indiamadeherdebutin Olympicfootball?
3.WhichplantisusedforgreenmanuringinIndia?
4. Whichcityis knownas the‘ManchesterofSouthIndia’?
5. TheGovernmentof Indiahas decidedto declareriveras ‘NationalRiver’?
6. WhatdoesthePreambleof ourConstitutioncontin?
7. Whichenergyof theelectronat absolutezerois called?
8.Whatisanessentialattributeofinflation?
9.Whichcityisknownforsilkwearingindustry?
10.WhichRajputakingdefeatedMuhammadGhoriforthefirsttime?
11.WherewerefirstOlympicGamesheld?
12. Whatis thecharacteristicodourof garlic?
13.ThesourceofIndia’ssovereigntyliesinwhichthing?
14. Whatcanbethemaximumdurationoftotalityforasolareclipse?
15.WhichregionofIndiawasruledbySultanZainulAbidin?
16.Whichisthevitaminthatismostreadilymanufacturedinourbodies?
17.Thecelebratednovel‘The Godfather’was authoredbywhichauthor?
18.Whatisthebestmeansofsavingduringinflation?
19. What is the total surface area of earth?
20.Sirajuddaulahwas defeatedbyLordClivein whichbattle?
Answer :
1. Poverty and famines 2. London in 1948 3. Sunhemp 4. Coimbatore 5. Ganga 6. The spirit of the Constitution 7.
Fermi energy 8. Increase in prices 9. Kanchepuram 10. Prithviraj III 11. 776 B.C. 12. A sulphur compound 13.
Preambleto theConstitution 14.7 minutes40 seconds15.Kashmir 16.VitaminD17.Mario Puzo 18.Money19.510

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1. In humanbody,whicharethelegbones?
2.WhentheVice-Presidentacts as Presidenthe gets theemolumentsof whichpost?
3.Whichofthefollowingisgoodnuclearfuel?
4.Allthewatchesof a countryareset accordingto whichtime?
5.NearthebanksofwhichriverexcavationshavebroughttolightthatIndusValleyCivilizationpercolatedto
farsouth?
6.Whichbookisentitledas‘BibleofCommunism’?
7.Whoispopularlyknownas‘NightingaleofIndia’?
8.Inmetabolism,howenzymesact?
9. If it is 4 P.M.on Monday at 150°W, what will be the time at 150°E ?
10.Thetermnishka,whichmeantanornamentintheVedicperiod,wasusedinlatertirnes,whatdiditdenote?
11.InIndia,theconceptofsinglecitizenshipisadoptedfromwhichcountry?
12.Whichistheessentialelementinallorganiccompounds?
13. Whichis theoldest‘stock exchangeof India?
14. What are the ‘Temperatelows’?
15.WhichareTileearliestBuddhistliteraturethatdealwiththestoriesofthevariousbirthofBuddha?
16.Dr.M.S.Swaminathandistinguishedhimselfinwhichfield?
17.Bywhichplantsisthemaximumfixationofsolarenergydone?
18. In whichyearwasthefirstnoconfidencemotionmovedin theLokSabhaafterindependence?
19.WhichhotanddrywindsthathelpintheripeningorgrapesintheAlpsregion?
20.WhichlanguagewasusedintheliteratureofSangamperiod?
Answer :
1. Humerus and Femur 2. President 3. Plutonium-239 4. Standard time of the country 5. Krishna 6. Das Kapital 7.
SarojiniNaidu8.Ascatalyst9.12 NoononTuesday10.Acoin 11.England 12.Carbon13.BombayStockExchange
14. Sub-polar low pressure belts 15. Jatakas 16. Agriculture 17. Green plants 18. 1963 19. Foehn 20. Tamil

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1. Whatisthewavelengthofvisiblespectrum?
2. ThefragmentsofwhichcometsystemcollidedwithJupiterinJuly1994?
3. TheNationalHousingBankwassetupin Indiaas a wholly-ownedsubsidiaryofwhichbank?
4.Wineproductionismainlycarriedoutinnaturalregion?
5. WhichwasthemostimportantfactorintransformingancientIndiansocietyintofeudalsociety?
6. Whichanimalresemblesmosttohumanbeingsintermsofphysicalandmentalcapabilities?
7. FromwherecanaMemberofParliamentclaimimmunity?
8. Saltsof whichelementprevidecoloursto fireworks?
9. Whereare the Postaz temperategrassland?
10. Whichwas theCholakingwhoconquered thenorthernpartofSri Lankaand madeit aprovinceofhis
empire?
11.Whereisthelargestautomobilemanufacturingcentreintheworldlocated?
12. ORT(OralRehydrationTherapy)is associatedwiththetreatmentof whichdisease?
13.TosuspectHIV/AIDSinayoungindividual,whichsymptomismostlyassociatedwith?
14.WhichisthechiefindustryofAfghanistan?
15.WhydidMuhammad-bin-TughlaqtransferhiscapitalfromDelhitoDaulatabad?
16.Withwhichtheexecutivepowerrelatingtoconcurrentsubjectsremain?
17. Wecannot see duringa fog. why?
18.Whichsituationmakesafirmmostefficient?
19.Silktextilesaremainlyproducedinwhichcountries?
20.ThePortuguesetraveller,NunizvisitedVijayanagarduringthereignofwhichrular?
Answer :
1. 3900-7600A2. Shoemaker-Levy 9 3. Reserve Bank of India 4. Mediterranean region 5. Practice of land grants 6.
Chimpanzee 7. From civil cases only 8. Strontiur and barium 9. Hungary 10. Rajaraja 11. Detroit 12. Diarrhea 13.
Chronic diarrhoea 14. Carpet making 15. To control South India better 16. The Centre 17. Because of scattering of
light 18. Lowest average costs 19. China and India 20.Achyuta Raya

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1.Whichtypeofcoalisdifficulttolightintheopenair?
2. Leukaemiaor bloodcanceris characterisedbyabnormalincreaseof whichcells?
3.HowmanysubjectsareintheUnionlist?
4.Whichinstrumentinstrumentusedforrecordingearthquakewaves?
5.WhichMughalemperorgavelandfortheconstructionoftheGoldenTempleatAmritsar?
6.WhatdoesOxidationinvolve?
7.AmongSouthAsiancountrieswhichoneistheMaternalMortalityRatio(per1,000livebirths)lowest?
8.Whatismeantby‘Underwriting’,thetermfrequentlyusedinfinancialsector?
9.‘Caldera’isafeatureassociatedwithwhichthing?
10. UndertheleadershipofwhichGurudidtheSikhbecomeapoliticalandmilitaryforce?
11.WhichPartofplantisimportantforthelifecycleofplant?
12.BywhichcommitteewereMandaiPanchayatsrecommended?
13.WhatwillbeIfapendulumclockbetakenfromtheearthtoarevolvingartificialsatellite?
14. WhichcityisassociatedwiththeriverMekong?
15.WhichdecisivebattlewasfoughtduringtheThirdCarnaticWarbetweentheEnglishandtheFrench?
16.CoolgardieliesintheAustralianprovinceofwhichdirection?
17. Gum Gopi Krishnawas a maestroof whichdanceform?
18.Whichisaninsectivorousplant?
19.Ashipmet withan accident at 30°Eand 35°N.Wherewas the shipwas sailing?
20.Whichgaveanimpetustothegrowthofmilitantnationalismonawidespreadscale?
Answer :
1. Peat 2. White blood cells 3. 97 subjects 4. Seismograph 5. Akbar 6. Loss of electrons 7. Bangladesh 8. Under
valuation of the assets. 9. Volcanoes 10. Guru Gobind Singh 11. Flower 12.Ashok Mehta Committee 13. It will stop
altogether 14. Phnom-Penh 15. Wandiwash 16. Western Australia 17. Kathak 18. Pitcher plant 19. Mediterranean
Sea 20. Partition of Bengal

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1. Whywas the Panchayati Raj System adopted?
2.Incolourfuldiamond,Whyaredifferentcolourspresent?
3.FromtheviewofInternationaleconomy,WhatdoesthirdWorldimply?
4. Whichis a land-lockedcountry?
5. Therulerof whichStatewasremovedfrompowerbytheBritishon thepretextofmisgovernance?
6.WithwhichfieldwasSatyajitRayassociated?
7.Whichplantisreferredtoasalivingfossil?
8.HowlongdidtheConstituentAssemblytaketofinallypasstheConstitution?
9.Whatis thecountrythroughwhichbothEquatorandTropicof Capricornpass?
10. From wheredidtheQuit IndiaMovementstart?
11.Whichphysicalquantitieshavethesamedimensions?
12. In which yeardidUN establishtheUN ConferenceonTradeandDevelopment?
13.WhichCommitteewasformedtosuggestmeansforeradicatingblackmoney?
14.TheKarakoramHighwayconnectswhichpairsofcountries?
15.WhichIndianrevolutionaryhelpedSubhashChandraBoseinraising‘IndianNationalArmy’?
16. Whichcropwouldbe preferredforsowingin ordertoenrichthesoilwithnitrogen?
17.WhowasthePresidentoftheConstituentAssembly?
18. Whatis thenumberof unpairedelectronsin carbonatom?
19.WhichlatitudepassesthroughIndia?
20.Whopropoundedthat‘destinydetermineseverything,manispowerless?
Answer :
1. Decentralise the power of democracy 2. Due to impurities 3. The developing countries 4. Zimbabwe 5.Awadh 6.
Direction of films 7. Gingko 8.About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946 9. Brazil 10. BombayonAug. 8, 1942 11.Momentum
andimpulse12.196413.CheiliahCommittee14.China-Pakistan15.RasbehariBose16.Gram17. Dr.RajendraPrasad
18. 2 19. Tropic of Cancer 20. Ajivakas

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1. Whichis UN Programmeandnotspecialagency?
2.Whois theauthorof thefamousnovel‘GonewiththeWind’?
3.Which mammalrollsitselfintoballatthetimeofdanger?
4. WhichStatehas the largest forest area.?
5.SufiKalam,atypeofdevotionalmusic,isthecharacteristicofwhichstate?
6.WhichDirectivePrincipleofStatePolicyhasNOTbeenimplementedsofar?
7.Whensomedetergent is addedto water,what will be the surfacetension?
8.Whatisthesituationwithincreasingunemploymentandinflationtermed?
9. PortBlair- thecapitalofAndamanandNicobar Islands,is locatedin whichisland?
10.WhatwastheoriginalnameofTansen,themostfamousmusicianat thecourtofAkbar?
11.WhichSanskrit poet called as the IndianShakespeare?
12. Howmanychamberare foundin theheartof frog?
13.WhichamendmentsaccordedprecedencetoDirectivePrincipleoverFundamentalRights?
14.WhichisthebiggestlakeinIndia?
15.WhichIndianrulerestablishedembassiesinforeigncountries.onmodernlines?
16.Inanatomtheorderoffillingupoftheorbitalsisgovernedbywhichprinciple?
17. Which decade is celebrated as United Nations Decade forWomen?
18.Whichagencyhasthepowertodeclareanyindustrialunitasapotentiallysickunit?
19.Whicharethewest-flowingriversofsouthernIndianwhichflowintoArabianSea?
20.WhenwastheIndusValleyCivilizationflourished?
Answer :
1. UNEP 2. Charles Dickens 3. Hedgehog 4. Gujarat 5. Kashmir 6. Uniform civil code for the citizens 7. Increases 8.
Stagflation 9. South Andaman 10. Ramtanu Pande 11. Kalidas 12. 3 13. 42ndAmendment 14. Chilka Lake 15. Tipu
Sultan 16.Aufbau principle17.1976-198518.BIFR19.NarmadaandTapti20.During2500-1750B.C

16. 19. Garden Reach Shipyard 20.Srilanka
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1.Sexdeterminationofchildisdonebywhosechromosome?
2.WhoisauthorisedtodecideoveradisputeregardingdisqualificationofamemberofParliament?
3.Whofirstlydemonstratedexperimentallytheexistenceofelectromagneticwave?
4.WhichisnotessentiallyaspeciesoftheHimalayanvegetation?
5.WhatarethemainchannelsofourknowledgeabouttheIndusValleyCivilization?
6.WhenisInternationalHumanSolidarityDayobserved?
7.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2001as which InternationalYear?
8.Whatistheeffectofoverseretionofharmonefrompituitarygland?
9.WhichtypeofforestcoversthemaximumareainIndia?
10. Whatwas the rateof land revenueas 'given in the dharmashastras?
11.TheLokSabhais calledin sessionforat leasthowmanytimesin a year’?
12.Heatingpyritesinairtoremovesulphurisknownaswhichname?
13. If the cash-reserveratiois loweredbytheCentralbank,whatwillbeits effecton creditcreation?
14. TheMatatilamultipurposeprojectislocatedinwhichstate?
15. Whatdidthename‘Ratnakara’denotedInancientIndianhistoricalgeography?
16. ‘Queen’sberryRules’is thename.givetotherulesinwhichgame?
17. Bywhomtheconceptof survivalof thefittestas advanced?
18. Whencan the salaries of HighCourt judges be reduced?
19. Whichshipyardis knownforthemanufactureof bargets, coastersand dredgers?
20. InwhichcountrywasBuddhismfirstpropogatedoutsideIndia?
Answer :
1. Father 2. President 3. Hertz 4. Mahogany 5.Archaeological excavations 6. December 20 7. International Year of
Volunteers 8. Increase growth in lenght 9. Tropical moist deciduous forest 10. 1/6 11. Thrice 12. Roasting 13.
Increase 14.UttarPradesh15.TheIndianOcean16.Boxing17.HerbertSpencer18.DuringaFinancialEmergency

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1.Thereisnonettransferofenergybytheparticlesofthemediuminwhichwaves?
2.JaspalRanaisadistinguishedathleteinwhichgame?
3. Whichprovidesthelargestpartofthedemandforloanablefundsin India?
4.Mohodiscontinuityliesatthedepthofapproximatelyhowmanykilometers?
5. Whowaswell-knownpatronof theMahayanaof Buddhism?
6.Fromtheevolutionarypointofview,whichisthemostprimitiveanimal?
7. Bywhom aretheChiefJusticeandotherJudgesof the HighCourtare appointed?
8.Whatis reductionofoxidewithcarbonat hightemperaturecalled?
9.Whichisthehigestplateauintheworld?
10.WhoauthoredtheTamilepic'Silappadikaram'?
11.S.VijayaLakshmiand NishaMohitaareassociatedwithwhich game?
12. HowmanygoldmedalsdidIndiawinat theXIthAsianGames?
13.At what level does the Natura 2000 network operate?
14. Whichatmosphericlayerthatreflectsradiowavesiscalled?
15. Howis Manimekalaiis looked?
16. Where can the report of the UPSC discussed?
17.Conversionofchemicalenergyintoelectricalenergyoccursinwhichthing?
18. Whatisthemainsourceofrevenuetomeetdifferentexpenditures?
19.Whatisalineonamapwhichjoinsplaceshavingthesamerainfallcalled?
20.WhichGuptakingisfamousforhiscourageousstandagainsttheHunas?
Answer :
1. Stationary waves 2. Shooting 3. Corporate businesses 4. 400 km 5. Kanishka 6. Turtle 7. President 8. Smelting 9.
Pamir Plateau10. Ilango 11. Chess 12. One13. European 14. Ionosphere 15.As the Odyssey of Tamil16. In Parliament
before being accepted 17. Battery 18. Internal borrowings 19. Isohyet 20. Skanda Gupta

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1.Whichgameis DavisCupassociatedwith?
2.WhendidthelastfemaleAlpineibexdisappearin France?
3.Towhomis theresignationletterofa StatePublicServiceCommissionmemberaddressed?
4.EquatorialforestoftheAmazonbasinisknownasbywhichname?
5.TowhichworkisDevichandraguptamrelated?
6.Purificationofpetroleumiscarriedoutbywhichmethod?
7.SaraswatiSammanisgivenannuallyforoutstandingcontributiontowhichfield?
8.FromwhichsectoristhelargestcontributioninIndia’sNationalIncome?
9.Thickstemsandthornywaxcoatedleavesarecommonlyfoundinwhicharea?
10.Whoismostfamousfor"theestablishmentofanelaboratesystemofmunicipaladministration?
11.Whatis theshortupperpartof thehumanintestinenext tothestomach?
12. WhichistheStatehavingthelargestpopulationofscheduledcastes?
13.WherewillbetheTimeperiodinavibrationmagnetometerinfinite?
14. Whichis consideredto causean adverseof effecton Indianmonsoon?
15. Who was a lexicographer?
16.Whowasthefirst Indianto be honouredwithalifetimeachievementOscarAward?
17. Whatcanbethemaximumlengthof a cricketbat?
18. Whichtechniquecanbeusedtoestablishthepaternityof a child?
19.Whichregiondoesnotreceivesmuchrainfallinthesouth-westmonsoonseason?
20. Bywhom was the cityofAgrafoundedin 1504?
Answer :
1. Tennis 2. 2000 3. Governor 4. Selvas 5. Chandra Gupta II 6. Fractional distillation 7. Literature 8.Tertiary sector
9. Deserts 10. Chandragupta Maurya 11. Duodenum 12. Utter Pradesh 13. At magnetic pole 14. El-nino 15. Amarslrnha
16. Satyajit Roy 17. 32” 18. Quantitative analysis of DNA 19. Tamil Nadu coast 20. Sikandar Lodi

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1.WhichcountryhasthebriefestConstitutionintheworld?
2.Whichpetroleumrefineryproducthasthelowestboilingpoint?
3.InwhichpolicyIndiaoptedfor‘MixedEconomy’?
4. In whichstatehas India’slargestprivatesectorseaportbeencommissionedrecently?
5. Bywhomwasthe'Shahnama'written?
6. What is the distancebetween poppingcreaseand stumps on cricket pitch?
7. BywhomwasGenefirstisolated?
8.WhowastheChairmanoftheDraftingCommitteeoftheIndianConstitution?
9.WhichisthelongestnationalHighwayinIndia?
10. Inwhichregionof IndiawastheSuharawadiorderofSufismpopular?
11.BywhichimpactisNuclearfissioniscaused?
12. WhichwasthefirstwomantoclimbMountEverest?
13.WhatisthetaskofthePlanningCommission?
14. HowmanyPINCODE Zonedividedin the country?
15. Bywhom wastheBhakti Movementfirstorganised?
16.BywhomwasInsulindiscovered?
17.HowlongdidtheConstituentAssemblytaketofinallypasstheConstitution?
18. Whichispurestformofiron?
19.Automaticapprovalupto51%intheenfrastructureseetywasgiveninwhich year?
20.DuringwhichreignwastheEastIndiaCompanyfoundedinLondon?
Answer :
1. USA2. Gasoline 3.Industrial Policyof1948 4.Andhra Pradesh 5. Firdausi 6. 3½ ft 7. Hargobind Khurana 8. B.R.
Ambedkar 9.NH710.Punjab and Sind11.Neutron12.JunkoTabei13.Preparationoftheplan14.815.Ramananda
16. Dr. F G. Banting 17. About 3 years since Dec 9, 1946 18. Wrought iron 19. 1991 20. Akbar

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1. Who was knownas ‘LadywithLamp’?
2.WhichIndianoriginimmigrantsbecametheGovernorofLouisianaprovinceoftheUSAin2007?
3. Fromwhichpartoftheplantis turmericobtained?
4. In orderof theirdistancesfromtheSun,whichplanetliebetweenMarsand Uranus?
5.WhichRajputdynastiesdidnotsurrendertoAkbar?
6.HowtypeofrightisRighttoInformation?
7. Whichis used as a coolantin nuclearreactors?
8. What does M3 include?
9. Cometsrevolvearoundwhichbody?
10. WherewasShivajicrownedas an independentking?
11.MeghnadSahaisknownforhiscontributioninwhichfield?
12.Whichpartofcinchonaplantyieldsquinine?
13.WhichrightconferredbytheConstitutionofIndiaisalsoavailabletonon-citizens?
14.Whichlayeroftheearthisbelievedtohavetheheaviestmineralmaterialsofhighestdensity?
15.WhichsaintnameisassociatedwithShivaji?
16.LiquefiedPetroleumGasconsistsofmainlywhichgases?
17. ‘Kandla’situatedontheGulfofKachchhiswellknownforwhichpurpose?
18. WhichMahatmaGandhiseriesof currencynotesissuedbytheRBIhas “ecology”depictedon it ?
19.Themappingofwhichpartofearthismostdifficult?
20. BywhomwasIslandof Bombaywas givento theEnglishPrinceCharles IIas dowry?
Answer :
1. Florence Nightingale 2. Bobby Jindal 3. Stem 4. Jupiter and Saturn 5. Sisodiya 6. Fundamental right 7. Liquid
sodium 8. M1 +T.D9. Sun 10. Raigarh11.Physics12. Bark 13. Freedomto speech 14. Central core15. RamDas 16.
Methane, butane and propane 17. Export processing zone 18. Rs. 100 19. Interior of the Earth 20. Portuguese

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1.Whichcytoplasmicorganellesaretreatedasprokaryoticcellswithintheeukaryoticcells?
2.Whatistheminimumageforelection/appointmentasmemberoftheRajyaSabha?
3. Whenmilkis churned,how doesthecreamseparatefrom it?
4.InUSA,whichregionreceivesheavyrainfallthroughouttheyearundertheinfluenceofWesterlies?
5.WhichfirstEuropeanscameto India?
6. Whendidmanfirstland on moon?
7.Whichisthesecondarysourceoflightinafluorescentlamp?
8.Archaeopteryxhadwhichreptiliancharacters?
9.Whichcoldanddenseairblowingdownthemountainslopeduringthenight?
10.WhenwasthemonopolyofEastIndiaCompanyintradebroughtunderthecontroloftheBritishCrown?
11.WhatistheminimumageforbeingthememberoftheParliament?
12. Whichelementsis obtainedfromseaweeds?
13.WhichistheregulatoryauthorityforgivingclearanceforExternalCommercialborrowing?
14. Where are Grasses almost absent?
15.WhowasimpeachedinEnglandforhisactionsinIndia?
16.Byusingwhichtechnique,isDNAfingerprintdone?
17.WhichBacteriaconvertatmosphericnitrogenintonitrogenouscompound?
18. Whichwas thefirstwomanGovernorof a Statein free India?
19.Whichecosystem covers the largestarea of the earth’ssurface?
20.Duringwhichmovementwas‘Mahatma’addedbeforeGandhiji’sname?
Answer :
1.Glyoxysomes2.30 years3. Dueto thecentrifugal force 4.North-western 5.Portuguese 6.1969 7.Mercuryvapour
8. Clawed wings, teeth on jaw,tail 9. Katabatic wind 10. 1773A.D. 11. 25 years 12. Iodine 13. RBI 14. In tropical wet-
evergreen forest 15.WarrenHastings 16. Southern Blotting 17. Nitrogen fixing bacteria 18. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 19.
Marine Ecosystem 20. Champaran satyagraha

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1. Soundtravelsfasterinwhichthing?
2. Whowas thefirst General-Secretaryof the Indian NationalCongress?
3. FromwhenwastheZeroBaseBudgetinginIndiafirstexperimented?
4. Rainfallinthedoldrumsisofthenatureofwhichprecipitation?
5. WhichfirstIndianleadertoundergoimprisonmentin1882?
6. Whichtypeofmicroorganismismostwidelyusedinindustries?
7. WhatisthemaximumnumberofelectedmembersinaStateAssembly?
8. In fireworks,howis thegreenflameproduced?
9. WhichtermfornaturalvegetationisassociatedwithSiberia?
10. DuringtheIndianFreedomstruggle,whostartedajournal“TheIndianSociologist”?
11. Personis called ‘Desert Fox’?
12.NationalAgriculturalCooperativeMarketingFederationisknownwhat?
13. Waterwill be absorbedbyroot hairs,thenhowis when theexternalmedium?
14. Whichis notanimportantfactorof climateof an area?
15. Bywhom was theHomeRuleMovementin Indiawas started?
16. BywhomareZonalCouncilprovided?
17. Who does a liquid drop tend to assume a spherical shape?
18.WithwhichEconomicgrowthisusuallycoupled?
19. Whereis thethermalequatorfound?
20.Afterwhosenamewasawomen’sdivisionoftheIndianNationalArmynamed?
Answer :
1. Ironthan inair2.DadabhaiNaoroji3.April,19874.Orographic precipitation5.C.Vijiaraghavachari 6.Bacteria,
microalgaeand fungi.7. 500 8.Becauseofbarium9.Taiga10. ShyamjiKrishnaVarma11.Gen. Rommel12. NACMF
13. Hypotonic 14. Longitude 15. Annie Besant and Tilak 16. By Parliamentary Act 17. Surface tension 18. Inflation
19. North of the geographical equator 20. Rani Jhansi

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1. TheUnitedNationsdeclared2013as the InternationalYearof which coperation?
2.Whatisaninstrumentformeasuringtherateoftranspiration?
3. Bywhom was an inter-StateCouncilset up in 1990underArticle263 of theConstitution?
4. Whichreflectsbackmoresunlightas comparedto otherthree?
5. Who started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
6.Whichsubstancedoesnothaveameltingpoint?
7. Howmanyvotesareentitledformembersof theUN EconomicandSocialCouncil?
8.InIndia,inwhichindustryaremaximumnumberofworkersemployed?
9. Whichis thesoil formedbywinddust in andaround hot deserts?
10. In whose court was a Chinese embassysent byTangemperor?
11.Forwhichsnakeis thedietmainlycomposedof theirsnakes?
12. On whichdate Indiabecamea Sovereign,democraticrepublic?
13. Whatminimumnumberofnon-zeronon-collinearvectorsis requiredtoproduceazerovector?
14. Where are Niagara Falls?
15.WhichinscriptionmentionsPulkesinII’smilitarysuccessagainstHarshavardhana?
16. Whatis thepresentstrengthof membersin theEconomicandSocialCouncilof theUN body?
17. Whichbookwas written byGraham Greene?
18. Whatstructureis commonto bothearthworm and cockroach?
19.WhichStraitconnectingArabianSeaandtheBayof Bengal?
20.ChandraguptaMauryafiguresprominentlyinwhosebook?
Answer :
1. Water Cooperation 2. Potometer 3. President 4. Land covered with fresh snow 5. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 6.
Glass7. One vote8.Textileindustry9. Loesssoil10. Harshavardhana11.Kinqcobra12. Jan 26, 195013.3 14.U.S.A.
15. Aihole Inscription 16. 54 17. The Power and Glory 18. Ventral nerve cord 19. Palk Strait 20. Vishakhdatta

24. 19. Indo-Aryan 20. Copper
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1.WhichactmadetheIndianLegislaturebicameral?
2. Bywhicha mixtureof sand andnaphthalenecanbe separated?
3.The‘UruguayRound’negotiationsresultedintheestablishmentofwhichorganization?
4. Durandlineis thebordercommontowhichtwocountries?
5. Who stated thattherewas no slaveryin India?
6.WhichflimwasmadebySatyajitRayforChildren?
7.Whichpartofhumanbrainistheregulatingcentreforswallowingandvomating?
8.WhatisthedurationofproclamationofFinancialEmergency?
9. Whichsetof countriesare completelysurroundedbyland?
10. WhichrulerhadgrantedDiwanitotheEast Indiacompany?
11. BywhichRadiowavesof constantamplitudecanbe generated?
12. Whenis International Dayof Peace, recognizedbythe UN is observed?
13.Inwhichyearwas‘RajivGandhiGrameenVidyutikaranYojana’launched?
14. Whereis thesouthernmostpointof Indialocated?
15. WhichfactoryinBengal,thewasestablishedbythePortuguese?
16. Whichis usedtoknowthedevelopmentoffoetusin uterus?
17.DuringtheproclamationofNationalEmergencywhicharticlscannotbesuspended?
18.Whichoilisusedinthefloatationmethodforthepurificationofores?
19. Whatis thenameofthegroupof languagesspokenbythelargestnumberof peoplein India?
20. Whichwasthefirstmetalusedbyman?
Answer :
1. GovernmentofIndiaAct, 1919 2.Sublimation3.WTO4.PakistanandAfghanistan5. Megasthenes6.Sonar Killa
7. Medulla oblangata 8. At the first instance two months 9. Mongolia, Zambia, Bolivia 10. Shah Alam II 11.
Oscillator12.September21 13.200514.GreatNicobar15.Hoogly16.Ultrasound 17.Articles20and2118.Pineoil

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1.Whenis InternationalDayforTolerance,recognized–theUNis observed?
2.WhichistheonlygolfertowintheMastersTournamentsixtimes?
3. Whopublishedthebook‘Originof speciesbynaturalselectionin 1859’?
4.BywhichnamedoestheBrahmaputraenterintoIndia?
5.InwhichAryansfirstsettled?
6.At presenttheRajyaSabhaconsistsof howmanymembers?
7. Whichmirroris tobe usedtoobtaina parallelbeamof lightfroma smalllamp?
8.InwhichyearwasMinimuminflationinposteconomicreform?
9.TheTibetanriver‘Tsangpo’entersIndiathroughwhichState?
10.OnwhichthingdidtheBuddhismandJainismbothgivestress?
11.TheAsianGameswereheldinDelhiforthefirsttimeinwhichyear?
12.Whichismostprimitiveancestorofman?
13. Who was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha?
14.InwhichcityofIndia,thediurnalrangeoftemperatureismaximum?
15. TowhomtheSarnath'sLionCapitalattributed?
16. Whatis theNumberof watermoleculespresentin Mohr’ssalt?
17.TheDronacharyaAwardforSports coacheswas institutedin which year?
18.WhatdoesInflationimply?
19.InwhichseasonisthefrequencyoftropicalcyclonesintheBayofBengalmaximum?
20. Whichsilvercoins IssuedbytheGuptas?
Answer :
1. November 16 2.JackNicklaus 3.Darwin4.Dihang 5.Punjab 6.245 7.Concave mirror 8.1999-2000 9.Arunachal
Pradesh 10. Non-violence 11.1951 12.Australopithecus 13. Malgaonkar 14. NewDelhi 15.Ashoka 16. 8 17. 1985 18.
Rise in general price index 19.After summer 20. Rupayaka

26. Oxygen20.Mongolia
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1. Whichis considereda hot-spotof biodiversityin India?
2.WhatdoesthespecialstatusofJammuandKashmirimply?
3. WhyareMetalsgoodconductorof heat than insulator?
4.WhereispearlfishingwelldevelopedinIndia?
5. Bywhom was therarework on architecture,SamaranganaSutradharawritten?
6.WhowasthefirstIndiantowintheWorldAmateurBilliardstitle?
7. Who was the first asiantohavereceivedthe NobelPrize?
8.Whichofaspeciesdescribesthetropicfunctionitfillsinitsenvironment?
9.WhatisthemostimportantitemofexportamongmarineproductsfromIndia?
10. Who wasthefirstSultanofDelhitointroducethepracticeof 'Sijda'?
11.Towhom is theChiefMinisterof a Stateresponsible?
12.Amixtureof camphorand benzoicacidcanbe easilyseparatedbywhichmethod?
13. Whichis theoldest‘stock exchangeof India?
14. Whatistheapproximateequatorialcircumferenceoftheearth?
15.WhichSultanofDelhiimposedJazfyaontheBrahminsalso?
16. Whogot the‘BharatRatna’award,beforebecomingthePresidentof India?
17.Whichvitaminisgenerallyexcretedbyhumansinurine?
18. WhatisthesourceofmaximumincometoPanchayatiRaj?
19.Whichis presentin thelargest amountin termsof percentbymassintheearth’scrust?
20.TheMansabdarisystemintroducedbyAkbarfromwhichsystemwasit borrowedfrom?
Answer : 1
1. Western Ghats 2.Aseparate Constitution 3.Theycontain free electrons 4. Offthe coast at Rameshwaram 5. Bhoja
Paramara6.WilsonJones7. R.N.Tagore8. Niche9. Shrimp10.Balban11.Governor12.Chemicalmethod13.Bombay
Stock Exchange 14. 40,000 km 15. Firoz Tughlaq 16. Dr. Zakir Hussain 17. Vitamin C 18. Government grants 19.

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1.Ifamaterial,placedinamagneticfieldisthrownoutofit,thenhowisthematerial?
2. Who becamethe first Indian to take16 wickets in a singletest match?
3. StockExchangesplaya rolein an economyhowmayitbetermed?
4. Whichis thehighestlakeabovethesealevelintheworld?
5.TheMarathapowerreachedthezenithofitsgloryduringwhichreign?
6.Apersonwholivesexclusivelyonmilk,eggandbreadislikeytobecomeavictimofwhichdesease?
7. Whichis at the apexof the-threetiersystem of Panchayati Raj ?
8.Inorganiccompound,halogens areestimatedbywhichmethod?
9. Whichis theexampleof craterlake?
10.The‘Misl’ofwhichRanjitSinghwastheleader?
11.WhereistheheadquartersofInternationalOlympicCommittee?
12. Who is the authorof the book‘MyCountry,My Life’?
13. Whichis knownas ‘graveyardof RBCs’?
14.Exceptionallyhighrainfallisrecordedinregionsowingtowhicheffect?
15. WhichLandtenuresystemswasintroducedbyLord Cornwallis?
16.WhichcanimposereasonablerestrictionsontheFundamentalRightsoftheIndiancitizens?
17. Ifthetemperatureofasemiconductorrises,whatisitsresistivity?
18. CENVATis associatedwithwhichrate?
19. In whichcountryhas maximumdamageto theforestsbeencausedbyacidrain?
20. Bywhom was Swarajas a nationaldemandfirstmade?
Answer :
1. Diamagnetic 2. Narendra Hirwani 3. Useful but need strict regulation 4. Lake Titicaca 5. Shivaji 6. Scurvy 7. Zila
Parishad 8. Carius method 9. Oregon 10. Sukerchakia 11.At Lausanne (Switzerland) 12. L.K.Advani 13. Spleen 14.
Orographiceffect15. Zamindari16. Parliament17. Decrease18. Rateofindirecttax 19. Poland 20. DadabhaiNaoroji

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1. Who is the authorof the book‘Glimpses ofWorldHistory’?
2. Whicharetheglandsof thebodywhichpourtheirseretionsdirectlyintothebloodstream?
3.TheFundamentalRightto PropertyhasbeendeletedbythewhichAmendmentAct?
4. Whichstateis withthelargestarea underwasteland?
5.OnwhichbasisMontague-ChelmsfordReportformed?
6. Whichis thesecondmostabundantmetalintheearth’scrust?
7.TheVivekanandaRockMemorialis situatedat whichplace?
8.Taxationandthegovernment’sexpenditurepolicyaredealtunderunderwhichpolicy?
9.Whichis thehighestpeakinAndamanandNicobarIslands?
10. Who attended the SecondRoundTableConferenceas the representativeof the Congress?
11.Atypicalhumanribcageconsistsofhowmanyribs?
12. Towhom theVice-President’sletterof resignation isto be addressed?
13.‘mho’istheunitofwhichunit?
14. Whichreservoiris constructedon Chambal?
15.Whichwerethepatronsof Sangam,an assemblyofTamilpoets?
16. GeetaChandranis wellknownbywhichname?
17.Whichplantispreferredformixedcroppinginordertoenhancethebioavailabilityofnitrogen?
18.Whichcellorganelleisresponsibleforcellularrespiration?
19.Whichstatewasinthedevelopmentofhydroelectricitythepioneeringstate?
20. WhichdynastydidruleoverMagadhaafterNandadynasty?
Answer :
1. JawaharlalNehru2.Endocrine glands3.44th4.Jammuand Kashmir5.TheGovernmentofIndiaAct,19196.Iron
7. Kanyakumari 8. Fiscal policy 9. Saddle Peak 10. Gandhiji 11. 24 12.President 13. Specificresistance 14. Gandhi
Sagar 15. Pandya 16. Bharatnatyamdancer 17. Gram18. Mitochondrium 19. Karnataka 20. Maurya

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1.Whohastheauthorityto removetheVice-Presidentfromhisofficebeforetheexpiryof histerm?
2.Whichisthemostmalleablemetal?
3.ForinternalfinancingofFiveYearPlans,thegovernmentdependsonwhichsource?
4. Thealtitudesofheavenlybodiesappeartobe greaterthantheyactuallyare.Whyis this?
5.DuringtheMughalperiodwhichtraderfirstcametoIndia?
6.AFortgottenEmpire’,writtenbytherenownedhistorianRobertSewell,isaboutwhichEmpire?
7. Which group of plant produce naked seed?
8.WhatisthemaximumstrengthofthenominatedmembersinboththeHousesofParliament?
9. Whodiscoveredthelaws of planetaryorbits?
10.WhichGodlosthisimportanceas thefirstdeityduringtheLaterVedicperiod?
11.WhogavethefirstexperimentalvalueofG?
12.Photochemicalsmogoccursinwhichclimage?
13.WhatisthePlanningCommission?
14. What do the surfaceof Earththatlies between theTropicof Cancerand theTropic,of Capricorn?
15.WhichisthemostimportantdivinityofRigveda?
16. Whichcommunicablediseaseis causedbybacteria?
17. Whois consideredtheguardianof thePublicPurse?
18. What is the conversion of Fe++ to Fe+++?
19. Whatpercentageof insolationis receivedbytheearth’ssurface?
20. Whowas thefamous Indo-Greekkingwho embraced Buddhism?
Answer :
1. Parliament2. Gold 3.Taxationonly4.Atmosphericrefraction5.English 6.VijaynagarEmpire7.Gymnosperm8.14
9. Johannes Kepler 10. Varuna 11. Cavendish 12. Warm, dry and sunny climate 13. An Advisory body’ 14. Torrid
Zone 15. Varuna 16. Leprosy 17. Comptroller and Auditor General 18. Oxidation 19. 47% 20. Menander

30. Chandragupta-II
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1.Ifa shipmovesfromfreshwaterintoseawater,whatwillhappen?
2.WhichwasthefirstNationalSecurityAdvisorofIndiawhodiedrecently?
3.Whatisthefirstcompoundwhichisfixedduringphotosynthesis?
4.At lowelevationwhichcloudareto be found?
5.DuringwhichreigndidbothVardhamanMahaviraandGautamaBuddhapreachtheirdoctrines?
6. WhichUnionTerritoryattainedstatehoodin February, 1987?
7. The escapevelocityfrom the surfaceof the earth does not depend on which body?
8.InIndia,whichfirstbankoflimitedliabilitymanagedbyIndiansandfoundedin1881?
9. Whichcolourtypesdonot indicatefairor fineweather?
10.WhatisthenamebywhichAshokaisgenerallyreferredtoinhisinscriptions?
11.A.NageshwaraRaois associatedwithwhichfield?
12.TowhicharePhototrophicandGeotropicmovements linked?
13. On which datewas the Stateof Bombaywas bifurcated intoMaharashtraand Gujarat?
14.Aplacehavinganaverageannualtemperatureof27°Candanannualrainfallofover200cm.whereisthis?
15.Whichregiondidnot formthepart ofAshoka's empire?
16. Whichisthemostunreactivegas?
17.WhenwasInter-GovernmentalAuthorionDevelopmentcomeintoexistence?
18. Whichrural bankhas beennamedaftera river?
19. In whichtypeof climatedoes thetemperatureneverriseabove10°C throughout the year?
20. WhichGuptarulerwas equallygreatintheartofpeace,wars andpersonalaccomplishment?
Answer :
1. It will rise a little higher 2. Brajesh Mishra 3. Glucose 4. Nimbus 5. Bimbisara 6. Goa 7. Mass of the body 8. Oudh
Commercial Bank 9. Cumulonimbus 10. Priyadarsi 11.A. Motion Picture 12.Auxin 13. May 1, in the year 1960 14.
Singapore 15. Madras 16. Hydrogen 17. 21st March, 1996 18. Varada Grameen Bank 19. Tundra Climate 20.

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1. Whichsubstancefoundinbloodwhichhelpsincloting?
2. How can a majorportion of the Constitutionbe amended?
3. Whatis the product ofthe timeperiodof a waveand its frequency?
4. Whichis themajoroilproducingareain U.S.A.?
5. WhocontributedtheChalukyainWestern India?
6. WhenwasLakeChadBasinCommissionfounded?
7. The popularTV.serial ‘Neem ka Ped’was writtenby whichauthor?
8.WhichConstitutionalAmendmentsbannedthefloorcrossinginParliament?
9. Whichcountryleadstheworldintheexportof oil?
10. TheKalachuriera counted fromA.D.248what was mostlyin currnet?
11.Whatis thenameofthescientistwhostatedthat mattercanbe convertedintoenergy?
12.BywhomwasthefirstestimateofnationalincomeinIndiamade?
13. ‘AsianDrama’, byGunnarKarl Myrdal,is a bookon which subjects?
14. Where do the Earthquakes rarelyoccur?
15. Kamarupais theoldnameof whichstate?
16. What is in a healthyperson rateof heart beat on one minute?
17. WhenistheConstitutionofIndiadesignedtoworkas aunitarygovernment?
18. Withthe riseoftemperature, what happens inthe speed of soundin a gas?
19. Mostlyin whichregiondo Earthquakesandvolcanoesoccur?
20.WhichregionofnorthernIndiawasnotincludedintheempireofAla-ud-dinKhalji?
Answer :
1. Fibrinogen 2. By two-thirds majority3. Unity 4.Texas-Louisianabelt5. Guptas6. 22nd May,19647.RahiMasoom
Raza 8. 52nd 9. SaudiArabia10.Andhra 11.Einstein 12. Dadabhai Naoroji 13. Economics 14. Brazil15.Assam16. 72
times 17. In times of Emergency 18. Increases 19. Folded and faulted region 20. Kashmir

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1. Which decade is celebrated as decade ofAction for road safety?
2. Whatis thesumtotalof incomesreceivedfortheservicesof labour,landor capitalin a country?
3. Myxoedemais disorderproduedduetohypersecretionof whichgland?
4.Inwhichcountryistheworld’shighestwaterfall?
5. Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles?
6.Fromwhichofthecountry,ConstitutionofIndiahasadoptedfundamentalduties?
7. Theisotopesof chlorinewithmassnumber35 and37 existin whichratio?
8. Whichdecadeis celebrated as UnitedNationsdecadeon biodiversity?
9.OnewillNOThavetopassthroughtheSuezCanalwhilegoingfromBombaytowhichcanal?
10. WhobuiltCharMinar?
11.InternationalDayfortheAbolitionofSlavery,isobservedonwhichdate?
12. Whatdoes proteindeficiencyin childrenusuallybetweentheageof 1 to 3 year cause?
13. Whowas thememberof theRajyaSabhawhenfirstappointedas thePrimeMinisterof India?
14. Whichcountryhasthehighest averageofroadlengthonperthousandsquarekilometerareabasis?
15.OntheruinsofwhichHindukingdomwasthekingdomofGolcondafounded?
16.WhentheradiusoftheT.G.coilis decreased,whatdoeshappenin its sensitiveness?
17. Unemploymentoccurswhenworkersmovefrom onejobto anotherjob?
18.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2014as whichInternationalYear?
19. Whichcontinenthas thelowestbirthanddeathrates?
20. Whereis BulandDarwazasituated?
Answer :
1. 2011-2020 2. Nationalincome 3.Thyroid 4.Venezuela5. Balban 6. Erstwhile USSR 7. 3 : 1 8. 2011-20209. Suez10.
Quli Qutb Shah 11. December 2 12. Kwashiorkor 13. Indira Gandhi 14. Japan 15. Kakatiyas 16. Increases 17. Frictional
unemployment 18. Crystallography 19. Europe 20. Fatehpur Sikri

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1. Whichdiseaseis causedbybacteriaandspreadthoughfaecalmatterbyhouseflies?
2. Whois theex-officioChairmanofRajyaSabha?
3.Whichcolloidsaresolventlovingcolloids?
4.AmongtheUnionTerritoriesofIndia,whichonehasthelargestsize?
5.DuringwhichreignwasthePuranaQilaconstructed?
6.WhichAustralianplayerwasknownas‘Fruitfly’amongsttherestoftheteam?
7.WhichtypeofunemploymentmostlyfoundinIndia?
8.Whatisa glasssidedtank,bowlinwhichaquaticanimalslive?
9. WhereareShevaroyHillslocated?
10. Bywhom was theSikh Khalsafounded?
11. Underwhichact was the SupremeCourt set up?
12. Theresistanceofmaterialincreaseswithtemperature.Whatisthis?
13.PravinArnreandVinodKambliplayedforwhichprovinceinSouthAfrica?
14.Kodaikanal,thefamoushill-stationofSouthIndia,issituatedonwhichhills?
15. On13thAprilofwhich yearGuruGobindSinghestablishedKhalsa?
16. TheOlympicMuseumwasopenedat whichplace?
17.Theword“biodiversity”isacombinationofwhichtwowords?
18. WhichJudgeoftheSupremeCourtwasunsuccessfullysoughttobeimpeached?
19.WhichrelatestotheformationoftheHimalayas?
20. TheMarathapowerreacheditszenithduringwhichPeshwaship?
Answer :
1. Typhoid 2.Vice-President 3. Lyophilic 4. Pondicherry 5. Sher Shah 6. Merv Hughes 7. Disguised 8.Aquarium 9.
TamilNadu 10. Guru Gobind Singh 11. RegulatingAct 12. Metal 13. Boland 14. Palni hills 15. 1699 16. Lausanne 17.
Biology and diversity 18. Justice Ramaswami 19. Folding of the geosyncline 20. Balaji II

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1.Whichmaterialisveryhardandveryductile?
2. Which is calleda ‘banker’s cheque’?
3.WithWhichgame/sportis ‘Poppingcrease’associated?
4.WhichlakeinIndiahasthehighestwatersalinity?
5.InwhichyeardidthePeshwabecametheofficialheadofMarathaadministration?
6. Bhopal gas tragedystruckin the year1984due to the leakageof whichgas?
7. Whichwas an associateStateof Indiabeforebecominga full fledgedState?
8.Einstein’smassenergyrelationisgivenbywhichexpression?
9.Whichisthefirstcompany-managedmajorportinIndia?
10. WhichGovernorofBengalcommittedsuicidein1774?
11.Pulitzerprizeisawardedforoutstandingworkinwhichfield?
12. Bouncingofchequeshasbecomeanoffence.Whatis thepunishmentforthesame?
13.Alloftheorganismslivinginaparticulararea,whatdotheymakeup?
14.Howcanfertilityofsoilbeimproved?
15. Bywhom was theVernacularPressAct was passed?
16. Bywhomis Recognitiontoa politicalpartyaccorded?
17. Whichwasthescientistwhowasresponsiblefortherejectionof vitalforcetheory?
18.WhichawardisassociatedwithAgriculture?
19. Whattypeof farmingis practisedin thedenselypopulatedregionsoftheworld?
20. InwhichyearDelhibecamethecapitalofIndia?
Answer :
1. Nichrome 2. Demand draft 3. Cricket 4. Sambhar 5. 1748 A.D. 6. Methyl-iso-cyanate 7. Sikkim 8. E = mc2 9. Ennore
10.RobertClive11.LiteratureandJournalism12.6monthsimprisonment13.Abiologicalcommunity14.Byadding
living earthworms 15. Lord Lytton 16. By the Election Commission 17. Lavoisier 18. Bourlog Award 19. Intensive
farming 20.1911

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1. Whohastakenmaximumwicketsinone-dayinternationals?
2.BywhichfissiondoesLeishmania,thecausativeagentofkala-azar,multiplyasexually?
3. Fromwhichdateshallthetenureof everyPanchayatbeforfive years?
4. The last three digits of a PIN code represent?
5. WhowastheViceroyof Indiaat thetimeofJallianwalaBaghMassacre?
6. Which rayswilldeflectinelectricfield?
7. Whyis theGrossNationalIncomealways morethanNetNational Income?
8. In whichcountrywas the 2010FootballWorldCup held?
9. Nal SarovarBirdSanctuaryis locatedin whichstate?
10.WhatwasthefirstventureofGandhijiinall-Indiapolitics?
11.Which disease is caused bythe bite of a mad dog?
12. Whichisnottheconcernofthelocalgovernment?
13. Mostofhydrocarbonsfrompetroleumareobtainedbywhichmethod?
14. Whichcurrentis produced byupwellingof wateroffthecoastof ChileandPeru?
15. Duringthereignof which IndianNationalCongress banned and over1,20,000 personswere arrested?
16.TheMusalman,thehandwrittendailynewspaperincirculationsince1927,ispublishedfromwhichplace?
17. UnderVAT,how manyslabs are there?
18.Fromthebiologicalevolutionarypointofview,thehumanheartisclosetotheheartofwhichanimal?
19. WheredoesthecoldLabradorcurrentbringninemonthswinter?
20. WholedtheagitationagainstthePartitionof Bengal(1905)?
Answer :
1. Mutthiah Muralitharan 2. By binary fission 3. From the date of its first meeting 4. Sorting district 5. Lord
Chelmsford 6. Cathode rays 7. Direct taxes 8. South Africa 9. Gujarat 10. Rowlatt Satyagraha 11. Hydrophobia 12.
PublicUtilityServices 13.Fractionaldistillation 14.HumboldtCurrent15.LordWillingdon16.Chennai17.418.Pig
19. Eastern Newfoundland 20. Surendranath Banerjee

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1.Inwhich yearwastheConstituentAssemblywhichframedtheConstitutionforIndependentIndiasetup?
2.Themass-energyrelationistheoutcomeofwhichteory?
3. Who is the authorof the book‘IndiaRemembered’?
4.Localthunderstorms‘Norwesters’areprominentinwhichstate?
5.WhoamongthefollowinghadledtheSwadeshiMovementinDelhi?
6. WhatarethetotalmembersofSecurityCouncil–
7.Wisdomteethnormallygrowduringthewhichage?
8.WhopresidedovertheinauguralmeetingoftheConstituentAssemblyofIndia?
9. If the atmosphereis cooled, whatis its capacityfor watervapour?
10.ABuddhist CouncilduringthereignofKanishkawasheldatwhichplace?
11.Whichalloyusedinmakingheatingelementsforelectricheatingdevices?
12.BywhichministryisEconomicsurveypublished?
13. Whichorganof UNOis considered as world parliament?
14.AmajorityofthepopulationofNewfoundlandareengagedinwhichprofession?
15.Whichdynastywas associatedwithGandharaschool ofArt?
16.Whichdiseaseischaracterisedbyinflammationofthemembranescoveringthebrainandspinalcord?
17. Betweenwhicha governmentisfederalorunitaryonthebasisofrelations?
18.WhichpurifiedoildoesAviationfuelforjetaeroplanesconsist?
19. Whichcountryproduced127lakhmetrictonesfish in 2010?
20.WhowasappointedbyAshokato administerjusticeinhisempire?
Answer :
1. 19462.Specialtheoryofrelativity3.PameiaMountbatten4.WestBengal5.Syed Haider Raza 6.15 7.17-30 years
8. Sachidananda Sinha 9. Lowered 10. Kashmir 11. Nichrome 12. Ministry of Finance 13. General Assembly 14.
Fishing 15. Kushans 16. Meningitis 17. Centre and States 18. Kerosene 19. Japan 20. Rajuka

37. Udaipur20.Seals
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1. WhichisthefirstmultipurposerivervalleyprojectofindependentIndia?
2. WhowasthefirstDeputyChairmanofPlanningCommissionofIndia?
3. WhatisAmnesia?
4. Recentlyreservesofdiamondhavebeenreportedin MadhyaPradeshfromwhichplace?
5. BywhichnamewasChanakyaknowninhischildhood?
6. TheNinthSchedulewas addedbywhichAmendment?
7. Thefilamentofanelectricbulbismadeofwhichmetal?
8. Whois associatedwithTashkentAgreement?
9. Whichmetalis usedforgenerationof NuclearPower?
10. InIndia,wheredidtheDutchestablishtheirearliestfactory?
11.WhichtwocountriesfollowChinaandIndiainthedecreasingorderoftheirpopulations?
12.Whatisthenormalcholesterollevelinhumanblood?
13. Whichwasthefirstwomanfilmstarnominated/electedto theRajyaSabha?
14.AnantapurdistrictinAndhraPradeshisfamousforwhichmetal?
15. WhichwasthefirstfortconstructedbytheBritishin India?
16. On which conservation law,does a rocker work?
17.Towhichdutiesis thesystemof valueaddedtaxationapplicable?
18. Ogadenregionhasbeen a sourceof conflictbetweenwhichcountries?
19. Silverisobtainedfromthelead& ZincaresofZawarminesinwhichcity?
20.In IndusValley,whichoneindicatesthecommercialandeconomicdevelopment?
Answer :
1. DamodarValleyCorporation2.ShriV.T.Krishnamachari 3.Related to lossofmemory4.Devbhog5.Vishnugupta
6. First 7. Tungsten 8. Lal Bahadur Shastri 9. Uranium 10. Masulipattanam 11. USA and Indonesia 12. 180-200 mg%
13. Nargis Dutt 14. Gold 15. Fort St. George 16. Angular momentum 17. Excise duties 18. Ethiopia and Somalia 19.

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1.What isSyrinx?
2. Bywhom is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is elected?
3. Whichis thebestconductorof electricity?
4. Whichof the planetsis nearest to the earth?
5.InwhichyearwastheIndusValleyCivilisationdiscovered?
6. Whichfirstwomanto becomeaChiefMinisterofanyStatein India?
7. Howmanyof Bankswerenationalisedsince1969?
8. Whichmodificationof root doesnotstorefood?
9.Whichplanetis knownas theEarth’sTwin?
10. Purushsuktais a part of whichveda?
11.WhatdoesthespecialstatusofJammuandKashmirimply?
12.Throughwhichmaterialdoessoundtravelslowest?
13. Whatare the brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha?
14.Howmuchtheequatorialcircumferenceisgreaterthanthepolarcircumference?
15. Whichwas commonbothto theHarappansocietyand theRigvedicsociety?
16. WhichUN agencyhas its headquarters at Paris?
17.Vegetativepropagationbystemcuttingisgenerallyfoundationofwhichplant?
18.Towhomis theChiefMinisterof a Stateresponsible?
19. Whatis the distanceof the equatorfrom eitherof thepoles?
20. WhowasthePresidentoftheFirst BuddhistCouncil heldat Rajagriha?
Answer :
1. Voicebox in Birds 2.All the members of Lok Sabha 3. Silve 4.Venus5. 1921 6. Sucheta Kripalani 7. 20 8. Stilt 9.
Venus10.Rigveda11.Aseparate Constitution12.Wood13.Dhrupad vocalists14.Approximately68 km15.Horses
16. UNESCO 17. Sugarcane 18. Governor 19. 10,002 km 20. Mahakassapa

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1. Bywhichmethodistheageofmostancientgeologicalformationsestimated?
2. Whichtax is leviedbythe Unionand collectedandappropriatedbythe States?
3. Ban-Ki-MoontheSecretarygeneralof UNObelongs to whichcountry?
4. Whichlayeroftheatmosphereprovidesidealconditionsforflyingofjetaeroplanes?
5. InwhichstatehadGautamaBuddhahadattainedMahaparinirvan?
6. Mostoftheplantsobtainnitrogenfromthesoilinwhichfrom?
7. WhoistheFatheroflocalselfgovernmentinIndia?
8. Ifthetemperatureinsidearoomisincreased,whatwillbetherelativehumidity?
9. Whichconstituentsoftheatmospherecausesgreatestchangesinclimateandweather?
10. Whowas thelast rulerof Sungadynasty?
11.Whatwas the pen nameof BankimChandraChattopadhaye?
12. Whichis not a directtax?
13. Whichfungusisresponsiblefordiseaselateblightofpotato?
14.Whichtypeofforestbeltsuppliesmostoftheworld’srequirementofnewsprint?
15. Whowerethefirstto establishtradecontactswiththeRomanempire?
16.WithwhichamendmentacthasPanchayatiRajreceivedconstitutionalstatus?
17.Whichpolymerisusedformakingbulletproofmaterial?
18. ‘Man-TheMakerof His OwnDestiny’bookwas writtenbywhichperson?
19.WhichclimatictypesufferschangeduetoshiftingoftheWorld’sPressureBelts?
20. Who is considered to be the father ofAyurveda?
Answer :
1. C4 method 2. Stamp Duties 3. South Korea 4. Stratosphere 5. Malia 6. Nitrates 7. Lord Ripon 8. Decrease 9.Water
Vapour10. Devabhuti 11.Kamla Kant 12.Taxon entertainment 13.Phytophthora infestans 14. Coniferous forest 15.
Tamils16. 73rd 17. Polyethylene 18. SwamiVivekananda 19. Monsoon 20. Charaka

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1.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2012as theInternationalYearof whichthing?
2. Whichglandis bothexoandendocrinegland?
3. Bywhom was theConstitutionof Indiaadopted?
4.Bywhichthemaximumamountofenergyinthepresentdayworldisprovided?
5.InancientIndia,NalandaUniversitywasa greatcentreforthestudyofwhichreligion?
6.Thefirstlawofthermodynamicsisconcernedwiththeconservationofwhichthing?
7. WhichstateproducesmaximumSoyabean?
8. When isWorldDay forWater,recognized by the UN observed?
9.Whichcountryisrichinoil?
10.BywhomwasthefirstMusliminvasionofIndialead?
11.WhichbloodvesselbringingbloodintoBowman’scapsule?
12.WhenwastheConstituentAssemblyforundividedIndiafirstmet?
13.Whicharemacro-nutrientsprovidedbyinorganicfertilizers?
14. Whichproperorderof seismicwaves as theyarereceived at seismograph station?
15. TheArabconquest of Sindtookplacein which year?
16. The UnitedNations declared 4th weekof Septemberwhich week?
17.Whatpercentageofcountry’sdemandfornaturalrubberismetbyinindigenousproduction?
18.Whichcausesthediseasesyphilis?
19. WhichEuropeancountryhasover200volcanoes,manyofthemstillactive?
20.Whichwasthemedievalrulerwhowasthefirsttoestablishaministryofagriculture?
Answer :
1. Cooperatives 2. Pancreas 3. Constituent Assembly 4. Coal 5. Mahayana Buddhism 6. Energy 7. Madhya Pradesh
8. March 22 9. Indonesia 10. Muharnmad-bin-Oasim 11. Afferent arteriole 12. 9th December, 1946 13. Nitrogen,
phosphorusand potassium14.P-wave,S-wave,L-wave15.712A.D.16.PeaceWeek17.97%18. Bacteria19.Iceland
20. Mohammad Bin Tughlaq

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1.WhichrightconferredbytheConstitutionofIndiaisalsoavailabletonon-citizens?
2.Whatistherelativepermeabilityofaparamagneticmaterial?
3.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2008as which InternationalYear?
4.OnwhichthingErosionofsoilbyarivermainlydepends?
5.WhatwasthemainbasisofsocialorganizationinIndiaduringtheearlymedievalperiod?
6.Whichcountrystoodsecondinthe1992BarcelonaOlympicsmedaltally?
7.Whereisthenationalinstituteofnutritionlocated?
8.WhichisahumanrightaswellasafundamentalrightundertheConstitutionofIndia?
9. Whatis the averagesalt contentin a litreof sea water?
10.WhyisSherShahiswellknownforhisadministrativeskill,?
11.InwhichTyndalleffectisnotobserved?
12.Whichcanbeusedforcheckinginflationtemporarily?
13. DhyanChand’snameisassociatedwithwhich game?
14.Whicharethe“HornofAfrica”?
15. BywhomwastheSarak-i-AzamwhichranfromtheIndustoSonargaon(inBangladesh)built?
16.WhichisNucleaseenzymebeginitsattackfromfreeendofpolynucleotide?
17.AfterhowmanyyearsOne-thirdof themembersof theRajyaSabharetire?
18.Asoapbubbleis givennegativechargethenwhathappeninitsradius?
19. Israelhascommonborderswithwhichcountries?
20. TheUpanishadsweretranslatedintoPersianbytheordersof whichrular?
Answer :
1. Freedom to speech 2. Greater than unity 3. Planet Earth 4. Its speed at which it flows 5. Caste 6. US 7. Hyderabad
8. Right to Education 9. 35 gm 10. Land revenue system 11. Sugar solution 12. Decrease in money supply 13.
Badminton 14. Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia 15. Sher Shah 16. Exonuclease 17. Second year 18. Increases 19. Lebanon,
Syria, Turkey and Jordan 20. Dara Shikoh

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1.TheWorldFoodPrizeis givenbywhichorganisation/worldbodie?
2. Whoarenotprotectedagainstinflation?
3. Forwhichis thesouthernblottechniqueusedforthedetection?
4. Whichis theStatewiththelargestareaunderwasteland?
5.‘Padmavat’ofMalikMuhammadJaisi,anotable,workinHindi,wascompletedduringwhichreign?
6.AMoneyBill passedbythe LokSabhahas to be passed/returnedbyRajyaSabhawithinhowmanydays?
7. Whatdosenotcontaina hydrophobicstructure?
8. HowmanyNobelPrizeshavebeenawarded so farto Indian citizens?
9.InwhichisthelargestpopulationofScheduledTribes?
10. WhocommandedtheMarathaarmyin thethirdbattleof Panipat?
11.TejaswiniSawantis thefirstIndianwomantobe crownedWorldChampionin whichsports?
12. Whichis the richestsourceof ascorbicacid?
13.Whichwormreachintointestineofhumanbyeatingleaf?
14.Palghatjoinswhichstates?
15. InwhichyearwasBombaywasacquiredbytheEnglishfromthePortuguese?
16. How can a Change in distribution of powers betweenthe Centreand the States be done?
17.Whichiselectricalcircuitsusedtogetsmoothdeoutputfromarectifiedcircuitcalled?
18. Bywhichbilldoesthegovernmentmakearrangementforthecollectionofrevenuesfora year?
19. WhichformsthewesternboundaryoftheIndiansub-continent?
20. Upliftofthebackwardclasseswasthemainprogrammeofwhichfamay?
Answer :
1. Kraftgeneralfoods2.Agriculturalfarmers3. DNA4. Jammuand Kashmir5. SherShah6. 14 days 7. Rubber8. 3 9.
MadhyaPradesh10.Sadashiv Rao Bhau11.Shooting12.Guava13.Tapeworm14.KeralaandTamilNadu15.1662
16. Amending the Constitution 17. Filter 18. Finance Bill 19. Hindukush 20. Satyashodhak Samaj

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1.Whichinternationaltenniseventisplayedonagrasscourt?
2. BywhichwouldDesertplantsbe characterised?
3. The distribution of powerbetweenCentreand the States is based on whichscheme?
4. Whichsoilis bestsuitedforcotton?
5. BywhomwasthepracticeofSatiwasdeclaredillegal?
6. Whatis themostsatisfactorymethodforseparatingsugars?
7. Who is the authorof ‘Business @Speed of Thought?
8.Whichisthe‘basisfordeterminingthenationalincome?
9.Onthebasisoftheprocessoftheirformation,whichsoilisformeddifferentlyfromtheotherthree?
10. Whichhelpedto develop closeties betweenthe governmentand themasses?
11.Alzheimer’sdiseaseinhumanbeingsischaracterisedbywhichdegeneration?
12.WhichAmendmentprovidedforanauthoritativeversionoftheConstitutioninHindi?
13. Theabsorptionof radio wavesbytheatmospheredependson whichthing?
14.Whichcroprequirescontinuoussemiaquaticconditionforcultivation?
15. Whowastheleadertohavetheuniquedistinctionoffiringthefirstshotintherebellionof1857?
16. ‘NaKhatmaHoneWaliKahani’is theautobiographyof whichperson?
17. Theworldfamous‘Khajuraho’sculpturesarelocatedinwhichState?
18.Whyistheyellowcolourofurine?
19. Whichstareis the largest producerof coffee?
20. In theInterimGovernmentformedintheyear1946,whoheldtheportfolioof Defence?
Answer :
1. Wimbeldon 2. By sunken stomata 3. Government of India Act, 1935 4. Regur 5. Lord William Bentinck 6.
Chromatography 7. Bill Gates 8. Production of goods and services 9. Regur 10. Ryotwari Settlement 11. Degeneration
ofnerve cells 12. 58th 13.Their frequency 14. Rice 15. Mangal Pande 16.V.P.Singh 17. Madhya Pradesh 18. Due to
the presence of urochrome 19. Karnataka 20. Baldev Singh

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1.Afterhowmanyyearsis thePresidentof USAis elected?
2.Whichenzymechangesmaltoseintoglucose?
3.EconomicPlanningisasubjectofwhichlist?
4.OnplanetEarth,whereisnocentrifugalforce?
5.FromwheredidMahatmaGandhistarthishistoricDandiMarch?
6. Who is considered as the inventor of theWorldWideWeb(WWW) ?
7.Whichofthefollowingwillprovidemaximumroughagetoourdiet,iftakeninequalmass?
8.WhichActgaverepresentationtoIndiansforthefirsttimeintheLegislature?
9. Whichplanethas thelongestdayand theshortest year?
10. Whofirstvoicedtheideaof a separateMuslimstatein India?
11.Whichpolymeriswidelyusedformakingbulletproofmaterial?
12. Whichwas thecropduring the13thand14th CenturiesA.D.the Indian peasants didnot cultivate?
13. Whatis themeanof ‘Takeoffstage’in an economy?
14.Theequatorcutsthroughwhichisland?
15. WhowasresponsiblefortheintegrationofIndianPrincelyStates?
16.Whichthreeimportantmicronutrientsareessentialforhumans?
17. Bywhichact didtheCrowntaketheGovernmentof Indiaintoitsownhands?
18. Whatare Carbon,diamondand graphitetogethercalled?
19. WhichcityisassociatedwiththeriverMekong?
20.BywhichwasYavanika(Curtain)introducedinIndiantheatre?
Answer :
1. 4 years 2. Maltose 3. UnionList 4.At the Poles5. SabarmatiAshram6.TimBerners-Lee7.Cabbage8.Government
ofIndiaAct,19359.Mercury10.MohammadIqbal11.Polyethylene12.Maize13.Steadygrowthbegins14.Borneo
15. Sardar Patel 16. Copper, zinc and iodine 17. Government of IndiaAct, 1858 18.Allotropes 19. Phnom-Penh 20.
Greeks

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1.Whatisthenamegiventoanalmostcircularcoralreefinsidewhichthereisalagoon?
2. Chocolatescanbe badforhealthbecauseof a high contentof whichelement?
3.InwhichPhotosynthesisoccurs?
4. Whicharetheimportantspeciesof theMediterraneanbiome?
5.At whichplacewas theheadlessstatueof Kanishkafound?
6. Who has the powerto form a new Statewithinthe Union of India?
7.BywhomwasElectronfirstidentified?
8. When was EXIM Bank set-up?
9.Theannualaveragerateofnetplantproductionishighestinwhichforests?
10.ThereligiousliteratureoftheJainsattheearlystagewaswritteninwhichlanguage?
11.Whichanimalcantoleratemoresummerheat?
12.Whatistheestimationofageofwoodyplantbycountingannualring?
13.InwhomtheexecutiveauthorityoftheUnionisvestedbytheConstitution?
14. Kula,Kufri,Kajjairand Dalhousiearealltouristsplaceof whichstate?
15.OfwhichReligion-wisethesculpturewerefoundatKankalitilainMathura?
16.Galvanisedironsheetshaveacoatingofwhichmetal?
17. Bywhomwasthefamous‘KirtiStambha’atChittorbuilt?
18. WhichisattheapexofIndustrialFinanceinIndia?
19.Whichstatereceivesrainfallfromnorth-eastmonsoons?
20. Wherearethetracesof Portugueseculturefoundin India?
Answer :
1.Atoll 2. Nickel 3. Chloroplast 4. Pine, cedar,fir 5. Mathura 6. President7.J.J.Thomson8.1982 9.Temperateforest
10.Ardhamagadhi11.Donkey12. Dendrochronology13. President14.HimachalPradesh15.Jaina16. Zinc17. Rana
Kumbha 18. Industrial Development Bank of India 19.Tamil Nadu 20. Goa

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1. Softdrinkssuchascocoacontainsingnificantquantitiesofwhichthing?
2. BywhomistheChairmanofthePublicAccountsCommitteeoftheParliamentappointed?
3. HowmustbetheThelinesofforceofauniformmagneticfield?
4.TheVaransiKanyakumariNationalHighwayiscalledwhichnationalhighway?
5. WhichoftheBritishOfficialsdefeatedPortugueseatSowlley?
6. Nameof S. Chandrashekharis associatedwithwhichsubject?
7.WhichistheofficiallanguageofCentralBankofWestAfricanBank?
8. Whatisthetransferofpollengrainfrompollensactostigmacalled?
9. WhatisintermsoftherailwaysystemIndia’spositionintheworld?
10. Wherewasthefirstironandsteelindustryof Indiaestablished?
11.Whodecideswhethera particularbillis aMoneyBillornot?
12.Chlorophyllisanaturallyoccuringchelatecompoundin,whatisthewhichthecentralmetalinthis?
13. Whatis themost appropriatemeasureof a country’s economicgrowth?
14. Whichisthebrightestplanet?
15.Whousedthephrase‘Un-British’tocriticizetheEnglishcolonialcontrolofIndia?
16. Whichis UN specialagencyandnotprogramme?
17.WhatistheStudyofintegrateduseofmicrobiology,biochmistryandengineering?
18. Whereis In theConstitutionof India,theword ‘Federal’used?
19. Whichplanettakesthesamenumberof days forrotationand revolution?
20.WhichelementofHinduismwaspractisedintheIndusValleyCivilization?
Answer :
1. Caffein 2. Speaker of Lok Sabha 3. Parallel to each other 4. NH 7 5. Thomas Best 6. Astrophysics 7. French 8.
Pollination9.Fourth10.Jamshedpur 11.Speaker ofLokSabha 12.Magnesium13.Percapitarealincome14.Venus
15. Dadabhai Naoroji 16. UNDP 17. Biotechnology 18. Nowhere 19. Venus 20. Cult of Shiva

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1.Whenarayoflightis goingfromonemediumtoanother,howisitsfrequency?
2. Whois theauthorof “TheKalameffect:Myyearswiththepresident”?
3. CENVATis associatedwith whichrate?
4.Atthesummersolstice,whichlatitudewillhavethelongestnight?
5.WhatwasthescriptofIndusValleyCivilization?
6.Whichbranchofsciencedealswiththestudyoftissuefoundinthebodyoforganism?
7. Bywhomis Recognitiontoa politicalpartyaccorded?
8.ForwhichthingisWashingsodathecommonname?
9. Through where does the Tropicof Cancer passes?
10. What are Brahmanas ?
11.Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom from Fear’?
12.Whenis Doctor’sDay,Bidhan ChandraRoyBirthDay is observed?
13.Whichhormoneisinjectedintocowandbuffalowduringmilking?
14. Whathappenswhena suddenfallinthebarometricreading?
15. Whatis themeaningof 'Buddha'?
16.WhichAmendmentprovidedforanauthoritativeversionoftheConstitutioninHindi?
17.Heatgiventoanidealgasunderisothermalconditionsisusedinwhichwork?
18. Howlongdoes India’seconomiczoneextendmilesoffits coast?
19.Howis theRelativehumidityoftheatmospheredirectlyaffected?
20.KautilyawasthePrimeMinisterofwhichIndianruler?
Answer :
1. Frequency remains same 2. P.M. Nayer 3. Rate of indirect tax 4. 60°S 5. Undeciphered 6. Histology 7. By the
Election Commission 8. Sodium carbonate 9. India and Saudi Arabia 10. Texts on sacrificial rituals 11. Aung San
Suukyi 12. July 1 13. Oxytocin 14. Storm 15. The Enlightened one 16. 58th 17. In doing external work 18. 200 19.
Change in atmospheric temperature 20. Chandragupta Maurya

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1. WhenisWorldDayforAudiovisualHeritage,recognizedbytheUN observed?
2.Maximumnutritiveelementaborbedbybloodfromwhichpartofalimentarycanal?
3. UnderwhosesignaturearethemembersofAll-IndiaServicesappointed?
4.Whichclimatebestsuitedforhorticulture?
5. Beforeascendingthe Mauryathrone, How wasAshokaserved?
6.Fromwhichoneamongthefollowingwatersources,thewaterislikelytobecontaminatedwithfluoride?
7. In whichyeardidthefirstmodemOlympicGamestakeplace?
8.WhichneighbouringcountryhasobjectionsonIndianBagliharHydro-electricProject?
9.Whichregiondoesnotreceivemostofitsrainfallduringwinter?
10. Whatwerethetwocolossalimagesof the Buddhaat Bamiyan?
11.Whichgeneticdiseaseis sex-linked?
12. Whatis thepartoftheConstitutionthatreflectsthemindandidealsoftheframers?
13.Whenwillahotbodyradiatemaximumenergy?
14.WhichAfricancountryisricherthanothersingoldanddiamond?
15. Who has been called the 'Napoleon of India' ?
16.Yondiekiwho set up a new world recordin 10,000meters race, belongs to which country?
17. Howmanyplayersarethereon eachsidein a women’sBasketball game?
18. Whoprovedthat DNA is thebasicgeneticmaterial?
19.Whichistheleadingproducerofsulphur?
20.DuringthereignofwhichPallavarulerdidtheChinesepilgrimHieunTsangvisitKanchi?
Answer :
1. October 27 2. Small intestine 3. President 4. Mediterranean 5. As a Viceroy of Taxila 6. Ground water7. 1896 8.
Pakistan9.CentralNorthAmerica10.WorksoftheGuptaArt11.Royalhaemophilia12.Preamble13.Ifitssurfaceis
blackand rough14.Zaire15.Samudragupta 16.Kenya17.6 18.Hersheyand Chase19.U.S.A. 20.Narasimhavaram
I

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1. WhatdoesthePreambleof ourConstitutioncontin?
2. Whichwill youputintopurewaterinordertopass electriccurrentthroughit?
3.Ofthevariouswaysoffinancinggovernment’sinvestmentexpenditure,whatistheleastinflationary?
4.Inwhichcountryare‘Dykes’especiallyconstructed?
5. What was SherShah’s real name?
6. Wheredid the 1st ODImatch was playedin India?
7.“Greenhouseeffect”withrespecttoglobalwarmingreferstowhicheffect?
8. WhichStatehas thelargest percentageof reservedparliamentaryseats?
9. Forwhichlandformis Coloradoin U.S.A.famous?
10. Whichbattlewas fought in 1192A.D.?
11.Afar-sightedpersonhas a nearpoint at 100 cm. What must be the powerof the correctinglens?
12. Which Indian was honoured bytheWorldStatesmanAward,2012?
13. BywhichbandisMonetarypolicyregulated?
14. Straitof Floridarunsin betweenwhichwaterbodies?
15.DuringwhosereigndidtheMongolsfirstinvadeIndia?
16. Whatis thegreencolorof plantsproducedfrom organelles?
17.Accordingto whichsystemarethemembersof the RajyaSabhaelected?
18.Whichfuelcausesminimumenvironmentalpollution?
19.WhichStraitseparatesAsiafromNorthAmerica?
20. Who was contemporaryof Namdev?
Answer :
1. The spirit of the Constitution 2. Lemon Juice 3. Taxation 4. Norway 5. Farid 6.Ahmedabad 7. Warming effect 8.
Uttar Pradesh 9. Grand Canyon 10. Second Battle of Tarain 11. +3.0 D 12. Stephen Harper 13. Central Bank 14.
AtlanticOceanandGulfofMexico15.Iltutmish16.Chloroplasts17.SingleTransferableVoteSystem18.Hydrogen
19. The Bering Strait 20. Sena

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1. The ODIPlayerof theYear2012’Awardwas givenby ICC to which Indiacricketer?
2.Who has createdworld recordin the men’s100 metres sprint event at 2008 OlympicGames?
3.Whichceilorganellesfunctionasthepowerhouseofalivingcell?
4. Which States of the U.S.A. are attached to Mexico?
5.Whowas theearliestSufiSaintto havesettledatAjmer?
6. ThemembersoftheStateLegislativeAssemblyareelectedforwhat period?
7. Howmanyimagecana manseeif he standsbetweentwoplanemirrorsinclined at an angleof 60°?
8.Whatisthebasicattributeofaformalorganization?
9.Khartoumissituatedattheconfluenceofwhichrivers?
10.UnderwhichreigndidMughalEmpireextenduptoTamilterritoryintheSouth?
11.TheWinterOlympiccameintobeinginwhichyear?
12.BywhichTransferofgeneticinformationfromonegenerationtotheotherisaccomplished?
13.WhichOnefeatureisdistinguishingtheRajyaSabhafromthevidhanParishad?
14.Whichisthesuthernmostcity?
15.WhichRajputmansabdarrevoltedagainstAurangzeb?
16.Whichhydrocarbonismainlypresentingobargas?
17. Who wrotethe bookBabubivah?
18. If thepriceof aninferiorgoodfalls,what aboutitsdemand?
19. Whichgulfwouldhavetobe crossedto reach Sri Lankafrom Nagercoil?
20. Whichwas thelast governorof Bengal appointedbytheMughalemperor?
Answer :
1.ViratKohli 2. UsainBolt3. Mitochondria4. California andTexas5. Sheikh Moinuddin Chisti 6. 5 years 7. 5 8.Rules
and regulations 9. White Nile and Blue Nile 10. Aurangzeb 11. 1924 12. By transfer RNA 13. Indirect election 14.
Raipur15.DurgadasRathore 16.Methane17.Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar18.Remains constant19.GulfofMannar
20. Murshid Quli Khan

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1. Wheredo Sweat glands occurin greatest number?
2. What is the electoratefor a Panchayat?
3.Thecauseoffractionalatomicweightsofelements?
4.ThesecondlargestriverbasininIndiaisofwhichriver?
5.WhichSikhGurucalledhimselfthe‘SachchaBadshah’?
6.Whowrote“TheCommunistManifesto”alongwithKariMarx?
7. In acronym SAARC, ‘C’ stands for which word?
8.Whatisthetotalnumberofbonesinhumanskull?
9.WhichisthesecondlargestbasininPeninsularIndia?
10. Who was the first Indian to get selectedin ICS ?
11.Forwhichperioddoes Mayorof a MunicipalCorporationholdtheoffice?
12.Whichgashasmaximumcalorificvalue?
13. In whichsectoris 70%of workingpopulationof Indiaengaged?
14.Whydo CoastalAndhraPradeshand Orissaoften facenatural disasters?
15. WhowasthefirstGovernorGeneralof Bengal?
16. Whendid IndiajointheUnitedNations?
17.ThefossilofArchaeopteryxrepresentstheevidenceoforiginofanimals?
18.Whowas thePresidentof theConstituentAssembly?
19.WhydoesMumbaireceivesmorerainfallthanPune?
20. What was the real nameofTantiyaTope?
Answer : 1
1. In the skin of the armpits 2. The Gram Sabha 3. The presence of Isotopes 4. Godavari 5. Guru Hargovind 6.
Friedrich Engels 7. Cooperation 8. 30 9. Krishna Basin 10. Surendranath Banerjee 11. 1 year 12. Oil gas 13. Primary
sector 14. Due to cyclones15.WarrenHastings 16. 194517.Birds fromreptiles 18. Dr.Rajendra Prasad 19.Because
mumbai is on the windward side 20. Ramchandra Panduranga

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1. Whichrays canpass through20 cm thicknessof steel?
2.Whichcharacteristiciscommonamongparrot,platypusandkangaroo?
3.InIndia,inwhichbankingisthePublicSectorismostdominant?
4.Whichdoesnothaveaunitof HindustanAeronautics Ltd(HAL)?
5. Who was the BritishPM at the timeof Revolt of 1857?
6.AIDSiscausedbyHumanImmunodeficiencyVirus(HIV),Whatisthis?
7. Bywhom was theCabinet Missionto Indiaheaded?
8. Phosgeneis obtainedbythereactionof carbonmonoxideand which gas?
9.WhereareDiesellocomotivesmanufactured?
10. WhoadvocatedthepolicyofabolishingprincelystatesinfreeIndia?
11.Whichpetroleumrefineryproducthasthelowestboilingpoint?
12.SIMBEXisanannualjointmaritimebilateralexerciseconductedbetweenwhichcountreis?
13. BywhomwereSpeciesPlantarumandSystemaNaturalwritten?
14. Whatis the process that result in the breakdown of rocks and minerals insitu?
15.WhowereconsideredconstitutionalistwithintheIndianNationalCongress?
16.WhichisahumanrightaswellasafundamentalrightundertheConstitutionofIndia?
17. Old-writtenmaterial,whichcannotbe read easily,howcanbe read?
18. Whichis thelargestPublicSectorBankin India?
19.WhichsetsindicatedtheAeolianprocess?
20.WhowasinstrumentalinbringingtheExtremistsandtheModeratestogetheratLucknow?
Answer :
1. ã-rays 2. Functional post anal tail 3. Commercial banking 4. Kolkata 5. Pamstern 6. Retro virus 7. Lord Pethick
Lawrence8. Chlorine9.Varanasi10.JawaharlalNehru11.Gasoline12.IndiaandSingapore13.Linneus14.Weathering
15. Satyamurtyand K. M. Munshi 16. Right to Education 17. Byinfrared rays 18. State Bank ofIndia 19. Corrosion,
attrition, deflation 20.Annie Besant

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1.Whichisnuclear-capablesubmarine-launchedballisticmissile?
2. Medicineforhighbloodpressureisobtainedfromwhichspecies?
3. HowmanytimeshasNationalEmergencybeendeclared?
4. Becauseof whichfactor, cloudsdo not precipitatein deserts?
5. Who headed theCabinetMission?
6. Whichcompounddoes not contains an OH group?
7. WhohasbeenappointedasthechairmanofCentralElectricityAuthority?
8. Whoisresponsibleforthecollectionandpublicationofmonetaryandfinancialinformation?
9. Whatisthequantityofwaterinaparticularvolumeofaircalled?
10. ThedescriptionoftheadministrationofPataliputraisavailableinwhichbook?
11. Whendoesa cellincreaseinvolume?
12. Under whichact was the Supreme Court set up?
13. Mesonsarefoundinwhichrays?
14. LichensandMossesarecharacteristicvegetationofwhichzone?
15. WhoalsohadthenameDevanamaPiyadasi?
16. Whowas thriceelectedPresidentof the IndianNationalCongress?
17. HowmanymembercountryarethereinCommonwealthNations?
18.Whichplantyeildsbiodieselorbiofuel?
19. Whatis associatedwithasavannaclimate?
20. Who was a contemporaryofAlexander,the Great?
Answer :
1. Sagarika 2. Rauwolffia species 3. Three times 4. Low humidity 5. Lord Pethick Lawrence 6.Aldehyde 7. Rakesh
Nath 8. Reserve Bank of India 9.Absolute humidity 10. Indica 11. If the external medium is hypotonic 12. Regulat-
ing Act 13. Cosmic rays 14. The polar zone 15. Mauryan KingAshoka 16. Dadabhai Naoroji 17. 54 18. Jatropha
curcas 19. Scrub 20. Chandragupt Maurya

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1.WhichJudgeoftheSupremeCourtwasunsuccessfullysoughttobeimpeached?
2.Maximumhydrogenbondingwouldbeobservedinwhichcompound?
3.Taxationandthegovernment’sexpenditurepolicyaredealtunderunderwhichpolicy?
4. SlashandburnagricultureinNorthEasternStateis Knownbywhichname?
5.WhichhistoricalpersonalityofIndiaisalsoknownasVishnugupta?
6.Whichorganizationissuetherulesofglobaltrade?
7.Whichenzymeisfoundinhumansaliva?
8. Bywhomis theAreaof LokSabhaConstituencyforthepurposeof generalelectiondetermined?
9.Telanganaregionrepresentstypeofvegetation?
10. Who werethe first Europeans to reach Indiafor trade?
11.Aliquid willnotwetthesurfaceofsolidiftheangleofcontactiswhichangle?
12. Whichdecadeis celebratedas First International Decadeof theWorld’sIndigenousPeople?
13. Whatisthemainsourceofrevenuetomeetdifferentexpenditures?
14. On which planet of the solarsystem does the sun risein the west and set inthe east?
15. TheEnglishEast IndiaCompanyfoundedapermanentfactoryatSuratinwhichyear?
16. Whatis thenormaltemperatureofhumanbodyonthekelvinscale?
17.AfterhowmanyyearsisElectionofRajyaSabhaheld?
18. Whatis theaveragesalinityof sea water?
19. Whichplanetofthesolarsystemhasthelongestday?
20.WhatwasthemainoccupationofthepeopleoftheIndusValleycivilization?
Answer :
1. Justice Ramaswami 2. Methanol 3.Fiscal policy 4. Jhumming 5. Chanakya 6. WorldTradeOrganization7.Ptyalin
8. Election Commission 9. Thorn 10. Portuguese 11. Obtuse 12. 1994-2004 13. Internal borrowings 14. Venus 15.
1613 16. 310 17. 2 years18. 3.5%19.Venus20.Agriculture

55. 19. Smog 20. Mahapadma Nanda
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1. Whichdecadeis celebrated as First United Nations Decadefor the Eradication of Poverty?
2.Internationalvoluntaryblooddonationdayisobservedonwhichdate?
3.Whycan Insectsmoveonthesurfaceofwaterwithoutsinking?
4.WhichmineralsoccursabundantlyintheEarth’scrust?
5. Which Harappan site had a dock?
6.Pneumoconiosisaffectstheworkerswhoworkmainlyinwhichindustry?
7. OnwhichPanchayatdidtheAshokMehtaCommitteegreateremphasis?
8.Whichhasthelargestlivestockpopulationintheworld?
9.Thetideatitsmaximumheightisknownbywhichname?
10.WhichVedathrowslightonthebeliefsandpracticesofthenon-Aryans?
11.TheUnitedNationsdeclared2009as which InternationalYear?
12.Lathyrismiscausedbyexcessiveconsumptionofwhichthing?
13. UnderwhichMinistryof theGovernmentof Indiadoes theFoodandNutritionBoardwork?
14.Whereare the Local thunderstorms ‘Nor’westers’prominent?
15.The codeof conduct of theVedicsocietywas laid out in whichtext?
16.Whatarethemetallicconstituentsofhard water?
17.WhobrokePeteSampras’srecordof maximumGrandSlamsin tennis?
18.WithwhichwasTaraporeCommitteeassociated?
19. Whatis the densemass ofsmall waterdrops onsmokeparticles in thelowerlayers of the atmosphere?
20. Who was the founderof the Nandadyansty?
Answer :
1. 1997-2006 2. November 6 3. Due to Surface tension of water 4. Silica 5. Lothal 6. Coal mining industry 7. Mandai
Panchayat 8. India 9. Spring tide 10.Atharvaveda 11.Reconciliation 12. Khesari Dal 13. MinistryofAgriculture 14.
WestBengal15.Smritis16.Calcium,magnesiumandiron17.RogerFederer18.Fullercapitalaccountconvertibility

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1.Howmanyorangutansdisappeareachyearasresultofpalmoilfarming?
2. Whodecidesaboutthereasonablenessof therestrictionsplacedon FundamentalRights?
3.Microwavesareelectromagneticwaveswithfrequency,intherangeofwhichunit?
4.MossesandLichensarethecharacteristicvegetationofwhichregion?
5. Whowasagreatrulerof Kalingain ancienttimes?
6. Makersof whichtypessponsorIndianace NarianKarthikeyan?
7.WherewillthewinteryouthOlympicsGames2016beheld?
8. Whichspecyof rhinocerosis saidtobethemostcriticallyendangeredspecies?
9.Treeswithhardwoodand densecanopyaregenerallyfoundin whichforests?
10.WhatwasthelanguageoftheSatavahanainscription?
11.BywhomistheSeparationoftheJudiciaryfromtheExecutiveenjoined?
12.AccordingtoDalton’satomictheory,whichisthesmallestparticlewhichcanexistindependently?
13. WhichMahatmaGandhiseriesof currencynotesissuedbytheRBIhas “ecology”depictedon it ?
14. In India,whichtypeof forestoccupythe largest area?
15.ThegreatgrammarianPatanjaliofancientIndiawaswhosecontemporary?
16.WhichwasthefirstAsianladyswimmertohavecrossedtheEnglishChannel?
17.WhichcreatureisfeaturedonthelogoforInternationalYearofBiodiversity2010?
18.TowhichBillthePresidentmustaccordhissanctionwithoutsendingitbackforfreshconsideration?
19. Where is Over90% of the world’sbiomass?
20. WhodecipheredtheBrahmiscript?
Answer :
1. 5000 2. Courts 3. Giga hertz 4. Tundra region 5. Kharavela 6. MRF 7. Lillehammer 8. Javan rhino 9. Evergreen
forests 10. Prakrit 11. Directive Principle 12.An atom13. Rs. 100 14.Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest 15. Pushyamitra
Sunga 16.Arati Saha 17.Agreater flamingo 18. Finance Bills 19. In tropical rain forests 20. James Princep

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1.Whofirstlypredicatedtheexistenceofelectromagneticwaves?
2. Whois thewinnerof SaraswatiSamman2012?
3.WhenwasdecimalcoinageintroducedinIndia?
4.Whyhavecontinentshavedriftedapart?
5. Whichrulerwasadorned withthetitleof 'Maharajadhiraja'(Kingof Kings)?
6. Whatrepresentsthemostcomplexlevel?
7.Whichwasthefirstwomanfilmstarnominated/electedtotheRajyaSabha?
8.Whichtypeofglassisusedinmakinglensesandprisms?
9. Whichis thesmallestwaterbody?
10. InancientpeninsularIndia,whoassumedthetitle'Vatapikonda'?
11.TheGoldenPalmd’orawardat the65thCannesFilm Festivalwas receivedbywhichperson?
12.WhichIndianbatsmanmadethreeconsecutivecenturiesinhisfirstthreeTestmatches?
13. Whichis thelargestflowerintheworld?
14.WhichEuropeancountrybordersAtlanicOcean?
15.PrithvirajChauhanbelongedtowhichRajputdynasty?
16. WhosepriorconsentcantheMoneyBillsbe introducedintheStateLegislature?
17.Theintensityofamagneticfieldisdefinedastheforceexperiencedbywhichpole?
18.AmongIndianEconomistswhohaddonepioneeringworkonNationalIncome?
19.Whichcountrymakesmaximumuseofthegeothermalenergy?
20.UnderwhichSultan,Khalisalandincreasedconsiderably?
Answer :
1. Maxwell 2.A.A.Manavalan3. 19574.Becauseoftectonicactivities5. ChandraguptaI6. Ecosystem 7. NargisDutt
8. Flint glass 9. Japan Sea 10. Narasimhavarman 11. Amour 12. Mohd. Azharuddin 13. Rafflesia 14. Portugal 15.
Gahadavalas 16. Governor 17. Unit north pole 18. V. K. R. V. Rao 19. Iceland 20. Alauddin Khilji

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1.Theterm‘ButterflyStroke’isassociatedwithwhichgame?
2.Whichvitaminisveryliableandeasilydestroyedduringcookingaswellasstorage?
3. Whoacts as theChancellorof StateUniversities?
4. Whichcurrentis produced byupwellingof coldwateroffthecoastof Chileand Peru?
5. Bywhom was the structureof QutabMinarwas completed?
6.Inwhichprocess,anucleusspontaneouslybreaksdownbyemittingradiation?
7. ‘AliceinWonderland’thefamousTVSerial,is based on a bookwrittenbywhichauthor?
8.WhowasthechairmanofNationalIncomeCommittee?
9.Inwhichcountryarethebrokenhillfamousforzincandlead?
10. WhenAkbarwas young,Whowas his guardian?
11.Which organdestroys worn out RBCs in the bodyof a vertebrate?
12. WhichStatehasnoPanchayatiRajInstitutionatall?
13. Fluorescent tubes are fitted with a choke.What does the choke coil?
14.TheVindhyasbelongtowhichclassofmountains?
15. InwhichyearAkbarassumedactualcontrolovertheadministrationofhisempire?
16. Who wrote the book ‘A Passage to India’–
17. BarackObama,thePresidentofAmerica, comesfrom whichAmericanStates?
18. Whatis thenormaltemperatureof humanbodyon theKelvinscale?
19. MaharashtrianPlateauismadeupofwhich?
20. BywhomwasNishatGardenbuilt?
Answer :
1. Swimming2.VitaminC3.Governor 4.Humboldtcurrent5.Iltutmish6.Radioactivedecay7.LewisCaroll8.P.C.
Mahalanobis 9. Australia 10. Bairam Khan 11. Spleen 12. Nagaland 13. Reduces current in the circuit 14. Block
mountains 15. 1560 16. E. M. Foster 17. Illinois 18. 310 19. Lava 20. Jahangir

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1. Whois theexecutivehead ofa MunicipalCorporation?
2.WhatisthemaximumnumberofhydrogenbondsinaH2
Omolecule?
3.HowisthecontributionofagriculturetoIndia’seconomy?
4.WhichtributaryoftheGangaSystemflowsnorthwards?
5.WhichMughalrulerbannedmusicanddancing?
6.Whois thefirstAirChiefto receivethehonourof “Marshal”?
7.Whichchemicalismostsuitabletocontrolstorageinsectsonasmallscale?
8.HowdidConstituentAssemblyarrivedatdecisionsonthevariousprovisionsoftheConstitution?
9.WhichriveroriginatesatAmarkantak?
10. Who succeeded Siraj-ud-Daulahas Nawab of Bengal afterthe Battleof Plassey?
11.Fortelevisionbroadcasting,whatfrequencyisemployednormally?
12. Kouroucityis well-knownforwhichpurpose?
13.WhichbodyfinalisestheFiveYearPlanproposals?
14. Whicharetheleadingstatesintheproductionof cottonin India?
15. WheredidShahjahanbuildtheMotiMasjid?
16.Whatisthestudyoftherelationofanimalsandplantstotheir’surroundingscalled?
17.WhatwasthemostprofoundinfluenceonthedraftingoftheIndianConstitution?
18.Thenitrogenpercentageisthehighestinwhichfertilizer?
19.WhichStatehasthelargestnumberofsugarmills?
20.AmongwhichclassdidIndianNationalCongressfindwideacceptanceinitially?
Answer :
1. Commissioner 2.4 3.Decreasing4.Sone5.Aurangzeb 6.ArjunSingh7.B.H.C.8.Byconsensus9.Narmada10.
Mir Jafar 11. 30 – 300 MHz 12.Satellite launching 13. National Development Council 14. Maharashtra and Gujarat
15. Agra 16. Ecology 17. Government of India Act, 1935 18. Urea 19. Uttar Pradesh 20. Educated middle class

60. Amazon 20. Quit India Movement
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1. If youwishtovisitGolcondaFort, youwillhavetogo towhichstate?
2.Whichbiomehasthehighestspeciesdiversity?
3.Bywhomwasfirstsuccessfulvaccineagainstviruldiseaseofsmallpoxdiscovered?
4. KanhaNationalParkbelongsto whichbiogeographicalareaintheworld?
5. In whichyearwasVandeMataramfirstsungat thesessionofthe IndianNationalCongress?
6.ThefiveyeartermofthePresidentiscalculatedfromwhichday?
7.Whicheffectshowsparticlenatureofheight?
8. Of whichpurposewas Nationalisationof banksdone?
9.Whichplanetisknownasveiledplanet?
10. WhichStatewas firstannexedbyLordDalhousieundertheDoctrineof Lapse?
11.Whichcontenenthasthelowestgrowthrateof population?
12.Nitrogenfixingbacteriaisusefulingrowingwhichcrop?
13. If thePresidentwantsto resignfromoffice,hemaydosobywritingto whom?
14. Whichis thelargestfreshwaterlakeintheworld?
15. Whichleaderof theRevolutionof 1857had therealnameof Ram ChandraPandurang?
16.Activatedcharcoalis employedto removecolouringmatterfrompuresubstance,it work?
17. OtherthanIndiaandChina,whichgroupof countriesborderMyanmar?
18.WordBullandBigareassociatedwithwhichbranchofcommercialactivity?
19. Whichisthelargestriverintheworld?
20.MahatmaGandhigavethecall‘DoorDie’duringwhichmovement?
Answer :
1. Karnataka 2. Tropical rainforests 3. Edward Jenner 4. Tropical Sub-humid Forests 5. 1896 6. The day he assumes
charge 7. Photoelectric effect 8. Consolidating the economy 9. Mars 10. Satara 11. Europe 12. Legume 13. Vice-
President14.LakeSuperior 15.TatiyaTope16.Adsorption17.Thailand,Laosand Bangladesh 18.ShareMarket19.

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1.Respirationcanoccurintheabsenceofoxygeninwhichthing?
2. How manytimes was the term of the Lok Sabhaextended upto6 years?
3. Opticfibresaremainlyusedforwhichpurpose?
4.Asiahaslargeareasof inlanddrainage.Whyis it so ?
5. PanditJawaharlalNehruwasborninwhich year?
6.Whichwasthefirsttolegalizeeuthanasia?
7. ChandaKochharleadsto whichoftheorganisation?
8.Whatistheselectivelypermeablemembraneofthecell?
9.WhichcountryinAfricahasluxurioustropicalrainforests?
10. Wherehas thelargestconcentrationof Harappansites been found?
11.InwhichoftheParliamentaryFinancialCommitteesistheRajyaSabhanotrepresented?
12.WhichcompoundgivesbothninhydrintestandMolisch’stest?
13. In which year wasTaxcollectionof Central govt.lowest as compareto G.D.P.?
14. Thegreatestdiversityofanimalandspeciesoccursinwhichforest?
15. Where was a copper chariot of Harappa times was discovered?
16. BaanKi-moon,theUNO Secretary-Generalbelongto whiich country?
17.Whichunicellularnon-pathogenicparasiteisfoundinthehumanintestine?
18.TheStatesReorganisationActcreatedhowmanyStatesandUnionTerritories?
19.InwhichvalleyistheHimalayanpassShipkiLalocated?
20. WhichCholarulerconvertedtheBayof Bengalintoa‘Chelalake’?
Answer :
1.Yeast2.Once 3.Communication 4.Rainfall is seasonaland scanty5.1889 6.Netherlands7. ICICI Bank 8.Plasma
lemma 9. Ivory coast 10. Ghaggar-Hakra 11. Estimates Committee 12. Aprotein 13. 1999-2000 14. Tropical moist
forest 15.At Daimabad 16. South Korea 17. E, coli 18. 14 and 6 19. Sutlej valley 20. Rajendra I

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1. Whichraysaremostpenetrating?
2.TheheadquartersofOrganizationofPetroleumExportingCountryislocatedinwhichcity?
3.InIndia,inwhichwastheservicetaxfirstintroduced?
4.MacmohanLinedemarcatestheboundarybetweenwhichcountries?
5.WholaidthefoundationofRashtrakutaEmpire?
6.Whichisthelargestphylumintheanimalkingdominrespectofnumberofspecies?
7.Whichisnotadministeredbya LieutenantGovernor?
8.Whichofthefollowingcarbohydratesismostabundantinnature?
9. On whichriverareTikarparaandJarajdams constructedundera multipurposeproject?
10.Whichruleratfirstassumedthetitleof‘Hazrat-i-Ala’andafterwards‘Sultan’?
11.In whichyearwasthe IndianSpaceResearchOrganization(ISRO)founded?
12. Who is the authorof the book“SuperstarIndiaFrom Incredibleto Unstopable”–
13.Whichislargestcellorganelles?
14. What is the majorsourceof ironore forVisakhapatnam?
15. Mughaldynastywas to BahadurShah‘Zafar’as Lodi dynastywas to which ruler?
16. Whatis thedocumentpublishedbythegovernmentto apprisethepublicon anyissue?
17. Whichis a goodconductorof electricity?
18. OfwhichallocationdoesGadgilFormulareferto?
19. Whichtwoplanetsofthesolarsystemhavenosatellites?
20.InwhichofthefollowingyearswasthefirstRailwaylinebetweenBombayandThanelaid?
Answer :
1. y-rays 2. Vienna 3. 1994 4. India and China 5. Dantidurga 6.Arthropoda 7. Chandigarh 8. Cellulose 9. Mahanadi
10. Sher Shah Suri 11. 1969 12. Sobha De 13. Plastid 14. Bailadila 15. Ibrahim Lodi 16. White Paper 17. Human body
18. Tax proceeds between the States 19. Mercury and Venus 20. 1853

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1.Whohaswrittenthebook‘MyFrozenTurbulencein Kashmir’?
2. Whichsubstanceis morethan80%inthecell?
3.Whichlanguageis NexttoHindispokenbythelargestnumberofpeopleintheIndiansubcontinent?
4.Whichplanethavethirteenmoons?
5. Whichwas the charilerAct to closethe tradeof East India?
6.Whicharethehigh-temperaturesuperconductors?
7.TheUnitedNationsdeclared1994as which InternationalYear?
8.WhoisregardedasthefounderofthescientificSocialism?
9. Onedegreeof longitudeon theequatoris equalto howmuchdistance?
10.Withwhichperioddo we associatethe 'megaliths'?
11.NationalEnvironmentalEngineeringresearchinstituteissituatedinwhichcity?
12. In whichpart of theConstitutiontheconceptofWelfareStatefindselaboration?
13.Whichcommondevicesworksonthebasisoftheprincipleofmutualinduction?
14.Whereisthemaximumdifferenceinthespacingoflongitudes?
15. Whenthefirstmetaltoolcameintobeingwhywasit usedfor?
16. MishaGrewalisassociatedwithwhichgame/sport?
17.AmarSinghSokhiisrememberedforhisperformanceinwhichsportsevent?
18.WhichPollutantisproducedfromvehiclesthatcausementaldiseases?
19. What is Watervapour beyond the dew point?
20. Whendidtheconceptofpollutionemergeclearly?
Answer :
1. Jagmohan2.Water3. Bengali4. Neptune5. 1833 6. Ceramicoxides7. InternationalYearofthe Family8. KarlMarx
9.50miles10.Neolithic11.Nagpur 12.DirectivePrinciples13.Transformer14.Atequator15. Clearingjungles16.
Squash 17. Cycling 18. Pb 19. Condensation 20. In the Post-Vedic period

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1. WhatisthetotalnumberofFundamentalDutiesmentionedintheConstitution?
2. Whichisthevarietyofcoalinwhichthedepositcontainsrecognisabletracesoftheoriginalplantmaterial?
3. Whatisthehighestdenominationofcurrencynotesincirculationaslegaltenderin Indiaatpresent?
4. Whichtypeofrainfallleadstotheformationofthewindwardandtheleewardside?
5. Whichof theVedaswas divided"into"White'and'Black'parts?
6. Who becamethe first woman in the worldtoski tothe North Pole?
7. Inwhichorganofthehumanbodyarethelymphocytecellsformed?
8. Bywhom is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is elected?
9. In whichforests areTeakand Sal are the principal trees?
10. Who is oftendescribed as the second'Parasurama'or the exterminatorof the entirekshatriyarace?
11. Whichis theprocessin whichno heat entersor leaves?
12.ForoutstandingcontributiontowhichfieldisShantiSwarupBhatnagarPrizegiven?
13.Forinternationalpayments,towhichcurrencyistheIndiancurrencylinked?
14.Whichvegetationiscallednaturalcattlecountry?
15. Who,wastheNandarulerat thetimeofAlexander'sinvasion?
16.WhatisHepatitis-B,whichaffectsliver?
17. BywhomistheChairmanofPublicAccountsCommitteeappointed?
18. Bywhichpermeabiltyis a superconductorcharacterised?
19. In theworldproductionof naturalrubber,whatis therankof India?
20. Towhom the 'Yavanas'refer?
Answer :
1. 112.Peat3.Rs.1000 4. Orographic5.Yajur6.Ann Banoraft7. Spleen8.All the membersof LokSabha9.Tropical
moist deciduous 10. Mahapadrna 11. Adiabatic 12. Science 13. American Dollar 14. Downs 15. Dhana Nanda 16.
Virus 17. Speaker 18. Zero permeability 19. Fourth 20. Greeks

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1.‘MeghanathSaha’awardisgivenforoutstandingcontributioninwhichfield?
2. Whowrotethebook‘Algebraof InfiniteJustice’?
3.Thesalivahelpsinthedigestionofwhichthing?
4. What is Oolong tea?
5. Who earned the title of a 'Liberator' ?
6. Whichwas thefirstStateto becomebifurcated afterindependence?
7. Howisthespeedoflightwiththeriseinthetemperatureofthemedium?
8. WhichtaxisnotleviedbytheUnionGovernment?
9. Howarethecavesof theworld’sgreatestfoldmountainsformed?
10.Vatapiwasthecapitalofthewhichreign?
11.Theautobiography‘LivingHistory’hasbeenauthoredbyauthor?
12. Howisthepitchofthevoiceofwomengenerally?
13. On which datewas the Stateof Bombaywas bifurcated intoMaharashtraand Gujarat?
14. Whichisablockmountain?
15. Bywhomwasthefamous bookGeetGovindwritten?
16. What makes a lemonsour?
17. HowisSwamiVivekananda’sbirthdayobservedinIndia?
18. Whatis theprincipalsourceof revenuetotheStateGovernmentin India?
19. Whichis thebusiestoceanictraderoute?
20. WhichMuslimemperorwasattractedbythebeautyofQueenPadmini?
Answer :
1. Science 2. Arundhati Roy 3. Starch 4. A variety of tea cultivated in Taiwan 5. Ashoka 6. Madras 7. Remains
unaltered 8. Profession Tax 9. Compressional movement 10. Chalukyas 11. Hillary Clinton 12. Higher than that of
men 13. May 1, in the year 1960 14. Vosges 15. Jayadev 16. Citric acid 17.As NationalYouth Day 18. Sales Tax 19.
NorthAtlantic route 20.Alauddin Khilji